City Council 12-19-17

Agenda, Minutes, Recording

• The council heard from 2 residents during open communications concerning the desire to decorate the Veteran’s Memorial with a Christmas wreath and to offer the city a Merry Christmas.
• The council heard a brief report from the Youth City Council Vice President.
• The council gave a unanimous consensus in support of putting $50,000.00 towards a pedestrian bridge over the river from the end of the Johny’s Dairy trail.  This money would only be paid in conjunction with being awarded a R.A.M.P. grant that would cover the majority of the cost of the project.
• The council approved a small change order for a roadway crack seal project.
• The council approved $26,400.00 towards a geo-technical study related to monitoring and predicting the geologic conditions of the area involved in the November 2017 landslide.
• I’ve yet to hear anything from city administration about my discretionary request from the last meeting (other than some misleading information in an email to the council from the City Administrator about why we could not do something).  The last thing I heard from the Mayor concerning this was:  “We can that together, see what there is… that’s a good idea Cody”.  The last thing I heard from the City Administrator was “we can talk about it”.  To be continued…

RDA Board 12-19-17

Notice of Cancellation

City Council 12-5-17

Agenda, Minutes, Recording

• The council heard from 2 residents during open communications concerning long term solutions for the ongoing landslide situation on the east bench, and also concerning the littering with newspapers by the Standard Examiner.
• The council approve the schedule for meetings in 2018.
• The council set a public hearing for 12-19-17 concerning amending the budget for Fiscal Year 2018.
• During the discretionary items period of the meeting I expressed a concern that I feel like we could be doing something proactively as a council to assist the residents who have been evacuated from their homes due to building safety concerns related to the landslide on the east bench area of the city.  What I feel we could be doing is setting policy as an RDA Board to offer some kind of assistance for specifically qualifying people.  I asked that ideas/options be presented for consideration at the next RDA Board meeting.  The Mayor said, quote:  “We can put that together, see what there is…That’s a good idea, Cody”.  

LOOKING AHEAD:

There will be City Council meetings on 1-2-17 and 1-16-17.  The RDA Board will meet on 1-16-17.  REMINDER: These monthly reports are only a brief summary (from my point of view) of our public meetings; you can always find more detailed information at riverdalecity.com.  These posts are also updated periodically as meetings take place during the month and new information and related links become available.