Jan 4 Council Meeting

In the books is the first council meeting of the year, our first one with new council member Chad Proctor, and our first one on a Wednesday night. In case you forgot, we moved council meetings to the 1st and 3rd Wednesday, instead of 2nd and 4th Monday.

This one took about 45 minutes. We first talked about officially approving a building code. There is some thought that lacking one, it defaults to the state building code, so that is being investigated. Also tied in, was a discussion about inspections of rental properties, and then also sump pump inspections, as I mentioned in a previous blog post. No decisions were made on any of those topics.

I appointed Jeff Harestad to be Roland's rep on the Emergency Management board, and Duane Canny to be my Mayor Pro Tem. Resigned Council Member Corey Johnson served in that role for me before. Basically the Pro Tem is a fancy way of saying Vice Mayor.

We gave each council member/mayor a committee for the coming year--for administration, water/sewer, and streets. We divvy up the jobs in those departments, if it takes a little more digging and effort.

I also announced the roll out of a city Facebook page, and Twitter account. More details to come on that.

Then we all got our picture taken, for the new 2012-2013 Council. You can see us all at the city's webpage HERE