Just finished watching the city council meeting on local access (along with others, I assume since the council chambers looked pretty bare) and it could have easily wrapped about thirty minutes earlier than what it did. Watching council members grill members of city staff, I found myself wondering: "More questions? Especially about stuff that had been discussed years ago?"
As usual councilman Monty pulled out an item from the consent agenda for further consideration. This time, it was the proposal to hire a firm to analyze the proposed improvements to the city sewer system system with questions, among others, about why the proposal hadn't been bid out. After discussion, it passed unanimously, as expected.
The proposal to begin developing the west side fire station also rand into quite a few questions from council, mainly about whether the building would be build using sustainable methods and if it would use renewable energy. Councilman Jack especially got a bit testy about this, as he said that the council had been pushing for "greener" buildings every since he had come to council and nothing had ever come of it. Proposal eventually passed and I think design staff said they would look into the possibility of incorporating renewables into the design.
Council then voted to change a previously created ordinance that gave the mayor the right to transfer city property valued under $1000 without permission of the council. Majority of the council felt that all transfers of city property, even relatively small amounts of $1000, should still be approved by the council as a whole.
During citizen comments, the sole speaker lodges a complaint against the new Ross store at University Mall, complaining that it only had an exterior entrance and now interior entrance into the mall, wondering if that violated any city ordinances about fire exits. City Manager Baity informed her that the plans had been approved by the city prior to Ross' moving into the mall and the location of the entrance did not violate any city ordinances or fire codes.
As usual councilman Monty pulled out an item from the consent agenda for further consideration. This time, it was the proposal to hire a firm to analyze the proposed improvements to the city sewer system system with questions, among others, about why the proposal hadn't been bid out. After discussion, it passed unanimously, as expected.
The proposal to begin developing the west side fire station also rand into quite a few questions from council, mainly about whether the building would be build using sustainable methods and if it would use renewable energy. Councilman Jack especially got a bit testy about this, as he said that the council had been pushing for "greener" buildings every since he had come to council and nothing had ever come of it. Proposal eventually passed and I think design staff said they would look into the possibility of incorporating renewables into the design.
Council then voted to change a previously created ordinance that gave the mayor the right to transfer city property valued under $1000 without permission of the council. Majority of the council felt that all transfers of city property, even relatively small amounts of $1000, should still be approved by the council as a whole.
During citizen comments, the sole speaker lodges a complaint against the new Ross store at University Mall, complaining that it only had an exterior entrance and now interior entrance into the mall, wondering if that violated any city ordinances about fire exits. City Manager Baity informed her that the plans had been approved by the city prior to Ross' moving into the mall and the location of the entrance did not violate any city ordinances or fire codes.
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