The city's Ordinance Committee will consider a handful of proposed municipal laws today.
First up for a public hearing, at 5 p.m., is a proposed statute aimed at keeping shopping carts from winding up in odd places.
Then, at 5:15, the long-delayed proposal to regulate the placement of newspaper boxes will be considered. I'm pretty sure they'll ignore my call for the city to pay for Bristol Press boxes on every street corner, but, hey, you never know.
At 5:30, the panel will consider Mayor Art Ward's request to move the starting time of the monthly City Council meetings up a half an hour so they can begin at 7 p.m. in the future.
Finally, at 5:45, the committee will take up a proposal to restrict registered sex offenders from going to city parks and schools.
It's possible there's another one at 6 about possible cost-of-living pension hikes for retired city employees. I didn't see that on the city's notice board, but the panel chairman, Craig Minor, said he thought it was slated to come up tonight, so it probably will.
The regular Ordinance Committee meeting is slated to begin at 6:30 in the meeting room outside the council chambers on the first floor of City Hall.
Anyone can come speak at the hearings, which won't start before the scheduled time, but could wind up beginning later if the earlier ones produce any delays.
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5 comments:
If the shopping cart issue continues as suggested by have the store owners ( victims ) pay a fine for the stolen carts , does this mean car-jacking victims will also soon be fined ???
...Well 10:36, if the car-jacking victim leaves his car open with the keys inside for public use, is then notified where his car is and asked to retrieve it, totally ignores this request and leaves the car wherever the car-jackers dumped it off to rot...well, ya they should be fined, don't ya think?
It would be nice if people would lock their cars at night. Instead, they leave them unlocked and call the police saying that someone
BROKE into their car. You don't have to break into a car thats left UNLOCKED!!!!!!
Leave it to the city to try and sneek in a meeting without posting it with regards to city employees pensions. If I'm not mistaken thats illegal not to mention very underhanded for both the city employees affected and the taxpayers who wish to attend these meetings and be heard.
you should "sneek" into a spelling and punctuation class, "thats" for sure
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