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 Good
Morning & Happy New Year to all.
Here is a brief summary of last night's City
Council meeting, our first of 2005.
A
proclamation was presented to the DISD School
Board, designating January as School Board
Recognition Month in the City.
An
ordinance was approved on final reading
dissolving the Parks & Recreation
Board.
We
received a report from staff on personnel
matters relating to accumulated vacation time
by a number of employees. As part of
developing a new personnel policy, we had
directed the staff to look into how that could
be reduced. To buy back the time would
cost the City a substantial amount, which we
do not have budgeted. We directed staff
to insure employees take their vacation, and
extra vacation as needed, to get the
accumulation down to no more than 120
hours.
We
next approved an ordinance adopting the
Personnel Policy for 2005.
The
City voted to support the reappointment of
Paul Maaz as a board member of the Subsidence
District. He will now serve another
two-year term.
Council
approved two projects adopted by the Dickinson
Economic Development Corporation, one relating
to a small green space park on the grounds of
the proposed new fire station, and the second
aiding the restoration of the Historic
Railroad Depot Project.
We
conducted a brief Executive session to do our
annual evaluation of the City Secretary, Misty
Nardin. After the session, we voted to
retain her services and to give her a 4.5% pay
raise to her base salary. She has proven
to be an excellent asset to the City in her
year with us.
I
hope everyone had a safe and happy Christmas
and New Year. Dickinson was blessed with
a white Christmas, something many of us had
never seen. The new year promises to
bring us many challenges as well as many
opportunities. As always, you are
encouraged to participate in all activities of
our City. Our next meeting will be
January 25 at 7:00 PM.
Kerry
Neves
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