REGULAR MEETING

         2/04/08                 

THE GRAND JUNCTION BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN MET ON 2/05/08.  ALDERMAN PERRY LANE PRESIDED IN THE ABSENCE OF BOTH MAYOR CURTIS LANE AND VICE-MAYOR CHERYL SMITH.  ALDERMEN JOHN BARRY, FRANK BELL, NICK EDWARDS, AND JERRY SMITH WERE ALSO PRESENT.  AFTER THE ROLL CALL AND THE INVOCATION BY REV. DANNY RACHEL, THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER.  MINUTES OF THE JANUARY MEETING WERE READ AND APPROVED. BILLS PAYABLE WERE APPROVED ON A MOTION MADE BY BARRY AND SECONDED BY BELL.

DEPARTMENT REPORTS WERE ROUTINE.

MOTION MADE BY JERRY SMITH TO BUY THE NECESSARY MANUALS FOR MIKE BRYAN TO STUDY TO QUALIFY FOR HIS BUILDING INSPECTOR’S LICENSE.  BARRY SECONDED.  ALL ALDERMEN PRESENT VOTED AYE.  THE MOTION PASSED.

ALDERMEN REPORTS:

BARRY DEFERRED TO CAROLYN GRAVES OF THE LIBRARY BOARD, WHO INFORMED THE BOARD THAT RALPH PARHAM WISHED TO RESIGN FROM THE BOARD.  SHE ASKED THE CITY BOARD TO APPROVE PATRICK MITCHELL AS A REPLACEMENT FOR MR. PARHAM. 

MOTION MADE BY BELL TO ACCEPT THE RESIGNATION OF RALPH PARHAM FROM, AND THE APPOINTMENT OF PATRICK MITCHELL TO, THE LIBRARY BOARD.  JERRY SMITH SECONDED.  ALL  ALDERMEN PRESENT VOTED AYE  AND THE MOTION PASSED.

EDWARDS: ROUTINE

BELL: ROUTINE

JERRY SMITH:  DOOR IS INSTALLED AND PUMPER MOVED.  IN THE FUTURE, CITY NEEDS TO CONSIDER BUILDING A FIRE STATION.

OLD BUSINESS:

PERRY LANE REPORTED BRIEFLY ON WORK SESSIONS OF THE BOARD.  THEY HAD MET FIRST WITH THE CITY AUDITOR BOB DOLL.  THEN, THEY MET WITHOUT THE AUDITOR.  BY THEN THE MAYOR HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT AND WAS NOT ABLE TO ATTEND.  PERRY SAID HE WANTED TO WAIT UNTIL THE MAYOR WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO DUTY BEFORE MAKING ANY RECOMMENDATIONS. HE DID GIVE SOME FIGURES TO ILLUSTRATE THE GRAVITY OF THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM.

NEW BUSINESS:

CARLA JACOBS WITH THE SHILOH REGIONAL LIBRARY ADDRESSED THE BOARD AND APPEALED TO THEM TO NOT CUT THE LIBRARY’S FUNDING. SHE STRESSED HOW MUCH MORE THE CITY WAS REAPING FOR THE INVESTMENT OF THAT MONEY. 

CITIZENS’ CONCERNS:

PAM FOSSEE

1. GLAD TO SEE SO MANY PRESENT.

2. BOARD NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. 

3. WANTS TO KNOW WHAT SHE CAN DO ABOUT BARKING DOG.

4. HOW CAN ONE IDENTIFY A TORNADO SIREN?

POLICE CHIEF RYAN SAID HE COULD HELP WITH THE DOG PROBLEM. FIRE CHIEF BRYAN SAID THAT THE TORNADO SIREN LASTS TEN MINUTES.

THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.