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Columbia City Council Report, Oct. 4, 2010 meeting In last night's October 4, 2010 City Council meeting
By Ed Waggener In last night's brief Columbia City Council meeting, the council moved ahead with the creation of a Columbia-Adair County Parks and Recreation Board with the first reading of an ordinance to establish the board. The board will replace the existing Columbia Parks and Recreation Board. No action is taken on first readings of ordinances and Mayor Bell indicated that the second reading, which will require a vote, will take place sometime between now and the end of the year, after some pending Columbia Parks & Recreation business is completed. Councilor Charles Grimsley, who is also chairman of the present Parks and Recreation Board, introduced the ordinance, which was read by City Attorney Marshall Loy. The new board will be expanded to nine members. It will include four members appointed by the Adair County Judge Executive, and will include at least one Magistrate and will be approved by Fiscal Court; four members appointed by the Mayor of Columbia, KY, and will include at least one City Councillor, all approved by City Council. A ninth member will be appointed by the Parks and Recreation Board itself, and will require approval of both the City Council and the Adair Fiscal Court. Two Tourism Board Members re-appointed Mayor Bell reappointed two members of the Columbia-Adair County Tourism board and both were unanimously approved by City Council.They are:
Mayor lets Council know of two hirings Mayor Bell announced that the City Gas Department had hired Chris Popplewell as a full time gas department employee and Shane Gaskin as a swing employee to work where most needed in the Gas, Street, or Sanitation Departments. Mayor Bell said that the new appointees for the Columbia-Adair County Parks Department will be left up to the next Mayor and City Council, which be be sworn in the first of January 2011. The Council reacted to Mayor Bell's announcement of the hiring of two new employees by voting a hiring freeze until the new Mayor and City Council takes office. The vote was 4-2, with Councillors Charles Grimsley, June Parson, Edwin Taylor and Linda Waggener voting for the symbolic gesture, and Councillor Joe Moore and Craig Dean voting against. According to City Attorney Marshall Loy, the Mayor has the statutory right to appoint new employees. The only statutory control the Council has is in setting the budget. Roy Rademacher suggests change in Citizen Comment schedule Roy Rademacher, a member of the Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission and a regular speaker in the Citizen's Comment segment of City Council meetings, requested an agenda change which would allow more Citizen input on matters before the council. At present, Citizen Comment comes before major action by the Mayor and Council. Rademacher suggested that a second CItizen Comments be made available, adding one to the end of the session. Mayor Bell said he would take consider the matter. In the Council Comments segment of the meeting:
He said that one of his biggest disappointments was the refusal of some landowners to grant easements for the safe routes to school project which included new sidewalks to the Adair County School District campus. He said he would look into the possibility of new signage around the Page Street Water Tower. (Google and Yahoo, the world's largest such services, offer relatively easy, no cost fixes for the few errors which occur in their mapping. -CM).Mayor Pat Bell said he would look into the matter of speed bumps, but said he usually found that citizens are equally divided on the matter of installation of speed bumps.Joe Moore moved adjournment of the meeting at 6:23pmCT. All Council Members, Charles Grimsley, Craig Dean, Linda Waggener, Edwin Taylor, Joe Moore, and June Parson were present for the meeting. Sonja Roy, Assistant City Clerk recorded the proceedings. Also present were Chief Jason Cross, City Planning & Zoning Board Member Roy Rademacher, City Gas Department Superintendent Ron Cook, and members of the media. This story was posted on 2010-10-05 04:44:57
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