The Common Council met 03/20/2024. The last item of business they took up was a request to reconsider proposed hours of operation changes for the Glendale and Whitman yard waste sites. The proposed changes had been voted on during the 03/06/2024 Common Council meeting where […]
Tag: Public Works
Utilities Committee Approves 2024 Native Landscape Management Contract – Alderperson Del Toro Expresses Desire To Limit Herbicide Products Contractor Can Use To Non-Glyphosate Products
The Utilities Committee met 03/12/2024. The item which resulted in the most amount of discussion was the request to award a single source contract for 2024 native landscape management to NES Ecological Services. Alderperson Israel Del Toro (District 4) was concerned that the contract allowed […]
Common Council Approves Special Assessments For 2024 New Street Pavement And Underground Utility Projects – Residents Express Opposition To Cost And Necessity Of Projects
The Common Council met 03/06/2024. Two of the items they took up were the final resolutions declaring the city intended to levy special assessments against property owners for the city’s 2024 concrete pavement, driveway aprons, and sidewalk construction projects as well as the city’s 2024 […]
Proposal To Change Yard Waste Operation Hours Fails At Common Council By 6-6 Vote – Mayor Woodford Reminds Council Of City’s Budgetary Constraints
The Common Council met 03/06/2024. One of the items separated out for an individual vote was the proposed changes to the hours of operation for the city’s two yard waste. This proposal would have maintained Friday through Monday summer service at the Glendale site while […]
Municipal Services Committee Votes 4-1 To Change Yard Waste Site Hours – Would Provide 7 Day A Week Service In Summer, Eliminate Weekend Hours In Winter
The Municipal Services Committee met 02/26/2024. They briefly took up a request from staff to modify the hours of operation for the city’s two yard waste sites. Currently, both the Glendale and Whitman sites are open Friday-Monday during the summer. During the winter the Glendale […]
Municipal Services Committee Approves $57,000 1-Year Contract For Increased Security Services In Downtown Parking Ramps – Increased Patrol Hours Requested After Increase In Vandalism And Unauthorized Behavior
The Municipal Services Committee met 01/22/2024. They spent 20 minutes, half the meeting, discussing the request to approve a single source $57,000 contract with Star Protection and Patrol to provide security services for 8 hours a day 5 days a week in the downtown parking […]
Municipal Services Committee Holds Whitman Yard Waste Site Closure Resolution Until January, Provides Questions Related To Potential Closure For Staff To Research
The Municipal Services Committee met 11/20/2023. One of the items they took up was the Resolution to close the Whitman Street yard waste site. This resolution was submitted by Alderperson Chad Doran (District 15), and like the two other resolutions he recently submitted, this resolution […]
Human Resources And Information Technology Committee Approves Reorganization Of Public Works And Community And Economic Development Departments – Will Move Inspections Division Away From Public Works And Into Community And Economic Development Department
The Human Resources and Information Technology Committee met 04/12/2023. The one action item on the agenda was a request to approve a reorganization of the Community and Economic Development and Public Works Departments. Essentially, city staff was requesting that they be able to do two […]
Where Is The City At With Funding For Infrastructure Maintenance? – 8 Alderpersons And The Mayor Weigh In
Back in December of 2022, the Common Council voted to approve Resolution 12-R-22. In its original form, this resolution would have eliminated the aldermanic parking pass benefit, currently valued at $480 annually per alderperson, and reallocated the $7,200 in total funds to the Public Works […]
Municipal Services Committee Approves All Agenda Items – Alderperson Doran Raises Concerns About $200,000 Parking Utility Deficit
The Municipal Services Committee met 11/21/2022. The open portion of the meeting was fairly brief lasting only around 15 minutes. All items were approved unanimously, some without any questions or discussion. Those items were: I’ve prepared a transcript of the full discussion for your downloading […]