It will be another
month before members of the Alexander city council will have a chance
to discuss a proposed ordinance concerning new fees for building
permits. Copies of the ordinance never made it into council members’
meeting packets. Mayor Paul Mitchell suspects when he gave it to
office staff it was after the packets had been prepared.
The new fee
structure has been in the works for several months. Fees from other
cities had been studied and language in the previous ordinance has
been brought up-to-date.
The only other item
on the agenda was a report from the planning commission. Chairman
Robert McKeon was not present and commission member Alderwoman Andrea
Bearden had nothing to report.
In other business
for the August 15 meeting;
Bearden asked
Mitchell about the progress of street repairs. Mitchell said ditches
are getting cleaned and repairs are being made.
The city uses the
Saline County Highway Department to do the larger projects such as
cleaning ditches and replacing culverts. However, the crews are only
made available on Fridays and the weather has been a factor.
Mayor
Mitchell received verbal consent from council members to explore
purchasing an electronic sign to replace the blue and white wooden
sign in front of the municipal complex. Mitchell said the wooden sign
needs to be replaced and an electronic sign would allow the city to
post messages such as meeting dates and burn bans.
The next
meeting of the Alexander city council will be Monday, September 19.
The meeting will be held at 6 PM in the courtroom at the Alexander
Municipal Complex. The public is invited to attend.
The reason the ordinance was not in the packet , was it was already in an earlier packet. If Bearden did not have hers, why did she not look, since it was in past meeting ? Seems pretty careless for her not to remember!!! It was in May!!!
ReplyDeleteSeems to me I was not the only one that did not have it but this is typical Juanita!!!
ReplyDeleteFolks, it is election time here in Alexander too; not just National.
ReplyDeleteCheck the voting record produced here on the Alexandrian and see who protected the interests of Alexander and who threw you under the bus when it came to any progress at all, like street paving and the simplest things like changing the dates on flood maps so you could keep your mortgage and insurance intact.
Then look at all the stupid questions that take up all the time in council, and who it is who stops progress every chance she gets! Who insulted citizens of Alexander by saying she would not vote for any assistance for them when it came to street paving, clear up to the point of stopping the paving for EVERYONE to keep a few people from help they desperately needed. Then blamed it on the people in her own ward when confronted with it! Who has no idea what she’s talking about, never checks facts, just airs her whiskey laced fantasy around as if it is fact,
We can do better than this. Join the progress of Mayor Mitchell; whose motto is
“IF WE ARE GOING TO BE A CITY; THEN LET’S BE A CITY”
Progress is everywhere, it will advance if we give him a council he can actually work with.
Check this site for recommendations. More is coming.
Berta R.
Here we go again.
ReplyDeleteWhen the packets are made up, there is no "to who" There is a 'sorting' mail box and as each report is completed, 15 copies are made; which includes 8 Aldermen, Recorder, Treasurer, Mayor, two Press, one to audit and one FOI, original goes to file.
We don't have time to sort or remove anything, nor would it be ethical. By Wednesday at the latest the week before Council, someone goes out and labels envelopes and puts everything from the 'sorting box' into the envelope, ready for the Aldermen to pick up.
Bob McKeon is welcome to one of the press packets if he would like to pick it up.
The packet that was in the council chambers for this last meeting contained June, July and August. Not everyone found the Ordinance right away, but most have reported that it was there. Three months reports are pretty overwhelming, I have no doubt; there was a lot to sort through.
The ordinance is in place; meetings have resumed so we don’t expect that kind of volume in further packets.
JoAn Churchill