Several items on the agenda this evening. First, the school principals were presented with their allotments for 2nd quarter's 1% sales tax revenue. Each school received in excess of $15,000. The council then heard from David Cooper on the effects the supension of a .5% of the city school tax might have on each school. Representing the school advisory board, he also recommended, and encouraged the city to re-evaluate our financial situation bi-annually to determine when the full allotment of tax revenue can be restored to the schools. I, personally, will make certain the city council does re-evaluate our financial situation as frequently as possible and restore the full 1 percent at the earliest possible time. The principals also gave us an update on their previous quarter's expenditures. They're both working very hard to provide our children the very best education possible and I appreciate their efforts.
Communicom cable was also present to discuss additional channels that might be added to their lineup. They have intentions of adding WVUA from Tuscaloosa to their lineup, but don't yet have a channel assigned. Their representatives are asking the city to allow them to put it on the government access channel assigned to the city of Guin. Additionally, there are two local cable channels who are vying for the same spot and we, the city of Guin, have to decide what we want to do with that particular channel on your local cable company. This is a topic we don't know a lot about, so we tabled the decision until we can know more about the details of a government access channel and how the different choices might positively or negatively affect the citizens of Guin.
Other Notes:
- Approved a resolution which would allow the mayor to act on the city's behalf when pursuing a grant that might allow us to fund the remodeling of our national guard armory.
- Approved a 1 year contract with Kay Marshall to design and maintain the city's websites (includes our industrial board site).
- The mayor assigned committees to each department/board within the city. Those city council members will attend the scheduled meetings and work with them closely to provide our citizens the very best services in the most efficient manner possible.
Thank you all for reading. Have a great week!
Monday, August 3, 2009
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