City Council continued with it’s “summer schedule” only meeting once in July. Historically there is less City business that requires Council formal action during the summer months – that does not mean there isn’t a lot going on though! For anyone looking for more frequent updates and if you are on Facebook I encourage you … Read more
At the June 7th City Council meeting residents shared concerns about some rowdy behavior that occurred following the May 23rd Board of Zoning appeals meeting. It is not unusual for interested parties to share opinions about things they see in open meetings, what is unusual is for those opinions to rise to the point of … 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
Council has held it’s regular November and December meetings – the end of the calendar year always has a flurry of administrative work. On top of that the last few months have certainly noticed a significant uptick in community involvement and comments. Ordinarily I would give an update on the recent committee appointments and updates … Read more
For anyone that missed the live feed or replay of last nights City Council meeting there were some intense moments (ICRC Link to the replay) For context – it started at time 43:53 during the ‘Old Business’ of the meeting I brought up a follow-up item from a letter a resident had sent in to … Read more
City Council met on September 21st and aside from some zoning and committee updates there was both an executive session and then a statement regarding the proposed relocation of the Springdale Community center to the new Artisan Village (formerly Tri-County Mall). The full joint statement from the developers and City is below. If anyone has … 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