After the last city council meeting I spoke briefly with Matt Gregory about the upcoming special council meeting that will focus on law enforcement issues. I told Matt that I didn't have an opportunity to read about the recent open meeting between police and community members. As I understand, that meeting led to Matt's request for a special council meeting.
Working out of town all week puts a different priority on my week end time at home and for the past several weeks I have been repairing broken sewer lines, hot water heaters, tractors etc. I have not read a newspaper in many weeks. Matt said I may have been fortunate by not having to rehash the details in newsprint of the current police issues.
Matt has asked council to respond to 5 areas in our special council meeting scheduled for December 1st, 7:00 pm at City Hall. These include: addressing the appropriate staffing level for our police force, discussions on the timing of the completion of the Safety Complex, review of the number of grants our law enforcement offers participate in, consideration of merging city and county services and lastly, physical fitness criteria for our officers. If you have an opinion on any of these issues please add your comments to this blog
I have had continuing conversations with members of the police force and the community since March of last year and am ready to share my opinion during the special meeting. I invite all concerned and interested citizens to attend the special council meeting.
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It's funny your opinion was missing last night. I was there, and you did not share any definitive opionins.I was counting on you, big disappointment.
ReplyDeleteBIG BIG BIG disappointment. All talk no action. What happened, you didn't have your little group there to pull the strings?
ReplyDeleteScott its a big disappointment to see that the city godfathers are not getting back to the basics, taking care of the citizens. As long as we allow a group to run and micro manage our departments, then why have a department head. Just like the city trying to hire a city manager, then why have a mayor and council??? And I forgot, since the city police are not allowed to patrol Rt 33 which is in th city are the other departments allowed to be there??
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