Wed at Huber Heights City Hall. See the city's website for agenda items. The posting below reflects the agenda as of 6pm Tuesday. Note: On the Agenda is the 2013 City Budget. Also, the YMCA is scheduled to talk about the Aquatic Center's financial report.

The Huber Heights Courier contains an announcement for Handel's Messiah to be performed at St Peter's Church on Dec 6th. For those of you that are leery to attend because it appears to be a St Peter's event, keep in mind, this started as a City project and on Jan 23, 2012 council authorized the Arts and Beautification Commission to spend up to $16,000 to bring the show to St Peter's on the City's…

If anyone is interested in becoming Mayor, a member of city council or a school board member of Huber Heights, you must file your application prior to February 6, 2013 (updated filing date). There are 3 council positions and 3 school board positions available. The application process for Mayor and City Council requires you file a nominating petition with at least 50 signatures and addresses of Huber Heights registered voters.
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The Huber Heights City Council meets 26 November 2012. There are about 50 items on the agenda so it will be a full night. Below I identify a few of the items I think most citizens should watch in order to make sure council conducts educational discussions about how decisions are made. I recommend you also look over the rest of the agenda items to see if any of them deal with things that you…

This week it looks like the Public Works Committee is as interesting as the Administration Committee.  Although without the pre-read that is sometimes attached on the city website it is hard to tell what will be discussed.

Public Works Committee
Has scheduled a
meeting (on or about 4:30pm) to discuss:
 

• State Route 4 – Speed Limit Increase
• United Water – Not To Exceed Amount
• City Water

Last night, Dec 4th, city council members received a presentation on another exciting project for the city.  However, this presentation was done in executive session.  As a reminder Ohio's Sunshine law tells us that in order to go into executive session to discuss the purchase of land the council must believe that "premature disclosure of information would give an unfair competitive or…

• State Route 4 – Speed Limit Increase  -- The city is on the way to change the current speed limit in the section near I-70 from 50mph to 60mph
• United Water – Not To Exceed Amount
• City Water and Sewer Projects -  During discussions council mentioned there exists a chart that ranks possible city water projects.  This should be available from city staff if you ask for it.  If you get a copy

Tonight Monday Dec 10th 2012 residents learned about a proposed Music Center the city plans on building. Five minutes later council voted to spend $100,000 in order to commission a study that will tell them to commence with a project where they have already settled on the major details. This is a familiar story to the Aquatic center and the original disclosure of "The Heights Project".  As…

The agenda's for Jan 8th Public Works & Administration Committee meetings have been posted. Of interest:

All of the Administration Committee that starts at or about 6 pm will be interesting. Of course it is scheduled to start with an Executive Session.  Note my long standing contention that most of these land acquisition discussions don't meet the requirement needed for an executive session
 
The…

Award of the $12 million Building Package Sept 23, 2013