Council Meeting 9-27

Kind of a busy agenda tonite, with a lot of different topics.

We made adjustments to the new street plan to add subdrains. The water table is so high along Bryan, the addition of subdrains will help channel water away, and hopefully keep the street from breaking up prematurely.

We gave final approval for approval of keeping of urban chickens. As a reminder, if you want to keep them, you will have to get a no cost license at City Hall.

We gave first approval to move our city council meetings to our Community Center. City Council meetings have been held in City Hall since the 1930s I presume. And most nights it is fine. But it can get very crowded, and warm, and some will have to sit in Janet's office space on nights with a big crowd. With our nice Community Center facility(which is available to rent by the way), it will hopefully become a more inviting place for people to come and participate in our city council meetings. It is not final yet, so next meeting will still be at City Hall.

We also approved some liens on some properties for failing to cut their grass.

One of the bigger discussions was the sale of city property. The City has 2 lots we may potentially wish to sell. One is the lot on South Cottonwood, where we recently tore down an abandoned house. The other is in the Britson Park area, that will be on the other side of the street from the remainder of the park, after the new street is installed. We talked with our city attorney about the legal requirements for us to sell the properties, and how we might like to go about it. Nothing is happening in the immediate term. But if you have an interest in either property, feel free to contact City Hall for more info.