The agenda for Monday's Council Meeting is posted on the city's website on the Meeting Information and Audio page  Don't forget you can watch the meeting live over the internet (the link only works during the meeting) or you can watch a recording once it is posted a couple days after the meeting. Of course you can always go to city hall Monday night and participate.

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I was ruled out of order in last night's city council mtg! I asked whose campaign I needed to contribute to in order to get a study done for a traffic light at Charlesgate and Old Troy. With that said an older man can get up and say I hate all foreigners and he thinks they should all be thrown out of the US in last month's council meeting, yet THAT'S not out of order. Mayor said that we should just "overlook" his statements.
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Saturday Feb 2, 2013 the school board will hold an executive session probably to discuss the upcoming negotiations with the teacher's union.  Is this appropriate?  Both the city and the school board always go into executive sessions for employment discussions. The school and the city are allowed to hold these discussions in executive sessions.  Read ORC 121.22 you'll see they are not required…

Post Meeting Notes added 20 Feb 2013:  For the Feb 19th Administration / Public Works Committee meetings.   

To look for the agenda's yourself go to www.hhoh.org then go to City Council and look for Meeting Information & Audio/Video.  Official city minutes will be published there in a few weeks.  I've {   } post meeting notes.  My summaries of the read aheads are italized, commentary written…

Here are the meeting agenda's and links to the read aheads.  I've added some post meeting notes.    In last weeks Council meeting there was a presentation on the music center.  You can watch the video recording of the meeting. 

1   Name of Body:              Administration Committee
 
 
2   Date:                           March 20, 2013
 
 
3.  Time:                           6:00 PM
 
 
4. Place:…

Tonight City Council will approve two contracts during the Council Meeting.

The no bid / no solicitation contract between the city and Ken Conaway LLC is available as a read ahead.  The fees involve include a .95% Project Management Fee (expected to total .0095 * $16,500,000 = $156,750) plus a Project Service Fee of $16,466.67 a month in order to gain rights to Mr. Conaway's time for at least…

(Update: Committee meeting agenda's added below.  Interesting stuff planned for Admin Meeting)

It has been a while since I advocated for you to get involved in city government. 

Here is my reminder for you to go to the source in order to stay informed.  One of the sources is the City's website for upcoming and past meetings.  There you can find the read aheads for committee meetings and the…

The agendas for the City Council Meeting 7pm Monday April 22, 2013 and the City Planning Commission 7pm Tuesday April 23, 2013 can be found on the city's website.  I can't attend either this week because I will be in meetings for work.  I appreciate your participation on our behalf. 

The major item Tuesday at the Planning commission is a Public Hearing about the Basic Development Plan and…

There will be an Administration Committee Tues, May 7, at 6:00 pm. On the agenda will be the upcoming Music Center. There is a concern that the process to find a contractor to build the music center may follow the same pattern of the Aquatic Center: Project Manager Tim Conaway would talk to two or so companies he thinks may do a good job and have them submit packages to him. He then evaluates them and recommends his pick to the council. Conaway's company apparently would get a percentage of the settled-on price…

July 1st all the single family residents in Huber Heights will be required to use Republic Waste Services as their garbage collector.  One of the first agenda items (last) Monday will be was a presentation to provide information on the transition.  I watched the first portion live via the city's website.  For some reason there was a lot of buffering this past week.   If you miss it Monday you…