Special Council Meeting March 10

We had a special council meeting on Thursday to cover a few items. We have hired a temporary city clerk to help out with city operations while our city clerk Deneen is on the mend. Our temporary clerk is Jodi Meredith and is also the city clerk of Kelley. However she works part-time there, so she will be able to assist in Roland as well.

I have been spending some time at city hall trying to dig through the stuff that has been stacking up with Deneen's absence. Jodi has made a good start on knocking it down as well. She was at this special meeting, and gave council an update on her progress. It is difficult to learn a new system, and find where stuff is filed, and where the checks are, and where to find passwords, and on and on. Councilmember Jeri Neely spent some time with Billing Clerk Janet Olson today, and got some bills squared away as well, so I appreciate both of their efforts.

We also got an update on the issues with our new street. We will find out more on our regular meeting on Monday night.

We also got dates squared away for getting our budget submitted. We asked for, and received an extension from the state, due to Deneen being out of the office.

On another note, our plow drivers reported there were 54 cars parked on the streets of Roland at the recent snow storm. Ok, I am going to chastise you guilty parties this time.

This snow was not a surprise. The council catches hell when we have the sheriff's department write parking tickets for this. Well, you know what, get your cars off the street! We didn't have tickets written this time. I'm ready to start towing cars tho. It's not 1847, we have TV, we have radio, we have the internet. We knew it was going to snow a lot.

We will have our regular council meeting on Monday.