Council’s April and May agendas were largely administrative, including more updates related to the Northland Blvd project as well as energy efficiency updates and staffing. Anyone looking for more frequent updates and if you are on Facebook I encourage you to join the Springdale Community Group. Feel free to tag me in any questions over … Read more
After a busy start to the new Council’s term the regular agenda eased up. Anyone looking for more frequent updates and if you are on Facebook I encourage you to join the Springdale Community Group. Feel free to tag me in any questions over there too, I try to keep up with it as much … Read more
City Council’s regular agenda schedule was very busy from an Administrative standpoint – if you look at just the December 6th agenda there were 15 Resolutions and 4 Ordinances alone! 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 … Read more
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
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