City Council’s regular agenda schedule was light leading up to the November local elections and as I highlighted in my last post for anyone looking for more frequent updates and if you are on Facebook I encourage you to join the Springdale Community Group. At last count the Facebook Community Group had over 950 members … Read more
City Council continued with it’s “summer schedule” only meeting once in August and then returned to regular (though light) schedule in September. As I wrote in my last post, for anyone looking for more frequent updates and if you are on Facebook I encourage you to join the Springdale Community Group. At last count had … Read more
Lately there has been a lot of discussion in the community around the Board of Zoning Appeals, what it is, the process, and general questions around it. This post shares some of my experiences with the Board with the hope it will help. As always these are my views and do not represent ‘official’ … Read more
City Council met for its regular meetings in February and March with largely administrative work. At the March 15th meeting Council had a very informative presentation from Metro about their upcoming Pilot of a public ‘lyft’ type program – MetroNow. Of Community interest: MetroNow Presentation Vehicles Impounding (Ordinance 04-2023) and Liability for Parking Violations (Ordinance … Read more
Happy New Year! City Council meet for its January meetings, as I mentioned in a previous post there are two items I wanted to highlight:: Chronic Property Nuisances Ordinance City Budget and Finances for 2023 City Budgets and Finances for 2023 City Council recently reviewed the entirety of the proposed City Budget for 2023 … Read more
In the June 15th City Council meeting the agreement to evaluate a transition from our current Community Center to a fitness center at the new Tri-County Mall redevelopment (Artisan Village) decision date was moved from the end of June to the end of September. Summer has flown by! So there are only a couple weeks … Read more
City Council typically moves to an lighter meeting schedule during the height of summer going down to one meeting a month. There tends to be less administrative and legislative work that happens around this time, however with the development work at the mall Council decided to keep the regular meets – though the agendas have … Read more
City Council meet on May 4th and May 18th for its regular meetings. The first meeting had a very light agenda – 2 resolutions, one to authorize the latest allocation of funds from the Federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (some call it ‘the Covid Relief Plan’ the same one that increased Child Tax … Read more
There has certainly been a lot of work going on to address concerns raised about the proposed Community Center transformation into the new Fitness Center at the Mall re-development. After the first Community Engagement Meeting City Administration reports it has been spending a significant amount of time on the detailed planning of the potential relocation … Read more
Last week City Administration held a meeting at the Community Center to discuss closing down the current Community Center and replace it with a Fitness Center at the Tri-County Mall redevelopment. Great news for the residents of Springdale? Well, maybe. After weighing everything known today about the proposal my current position is: While there is … Read more