Monday, December 24, 2007

What Should a Concerned Citizen Do?

When you’re watching City Council put their foot in it.

Last Monday, December 17, at a special meeting of City Council, Ted Freeman was in the audience while City Council proceeded to introduce an ordinance (or, several ordinances, judging from the Public Notices published later in the week). This was against the City’s charter (the equivalent of a constitution on the city level). Further, the ordinances were an add-on to the published purpose of the meeting, which was to reschedule the regular meeting that would have been held on December 24.

Mr. Freeman rose and challenged the actions of the City Council. He told them they were out of order. Council President Weaver told him he was out of order, gavel pounding and shouting followed, with threats to have Mr. Freeman removed, etc. I’ve been told the brou-ha-ha lasted about 30 seconds, although it probably seemed much longer.

Later in the week, Tom Jagger, City Attorney, said that Mr. Freeman was correct in that the Charter does not allow ordinances to be introduced at special meetings. So, given that the Council members, the City Clerk, the City Manager, and the City Attorney were all present, but none of them remembered that they couldn’t introduce an ordinance, just what was Mr. Freeman supposed to do?

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Thursday, December 06, 2007

GREAT THINGS HAPPENING IN EASTWOOD HEIGHTS!!!

Flloyd Jaramillo is doing some great things in Eastwood Heights that I wanted to let you know about.  For Thanksgiving, he was able to give away 40 Thanksgiving baskets.  He’s also planning to give away Christmas bags to the neighborhood kids on Saturday, December 22nd from 1pm to 3pm at St. Anne’s.  I’m sure that he can use help putting together the bags beforehand as well as distributing them on the day of. 

Sandy Daff

Monday, December 03, 2007

PNP Meeting December 2007

Discussions with City Officials.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, 4 December, will see the Pueblo Neighborhood Partnership meeting.

We’ll be meeting and eating at 11:30 am, in the District Attorney’s Conference Room in their building at 701 Court St.

The agenda is as follows:

• Brief Introductions

• Announcements by Officials (who have to get back to work quickly)
- TBD

• Official Business
- Committee Reports
- Proposed Bylaws & Articles of Incorporation [Note: Bylaws (Draft) are available for download from Pueblog.us.]
- January 2008 Retreat

• Primary Topic
- Pueblo Planning & Development Department Plans for the Future Development of Pueblo; Mr. Jerry Pacheco, Assistant City Manager for Community Development presenting.

• Adjournment

Saturday, December 01, 2007

Help At Home, Anyone?

Senior Resource Development Agency’s assistance program.

Over 60 years of age?

If you need some help in keeping up with keeping up the household, SRDA seems to have a program in place to assist.

They’ve got people willing to do inside—laundry, mopping, vacuuming—AND outside—mowing, raking, grocery shopping—work for you at reasonable rates.

If you live outside of OHNO’s area, call SRDA direct at 545-8900.

If you live in OHNO’s area, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)....she seems to be drumming up business along those lines in the area.

OHNO Bi-Monthly General Meeting — December 2007

Food, Fun, Friends and an Election!

Tuesday evening will be the bi-monthly general meeting of the Old Historic Northside Organization. It is open to members and their invited guests.

We’ll not be at our usual meeting place, but, in our now-established tradition, we’ll have a progressive dinner party. Appetizers, entrées and desserts will be offered at three different locations within walking distance of each other. Events begin at 6:30 pm.

To participate, coordinate your contribution with .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Be sure to bring your ballot with you for the election of who will be guiding OHNO next year and the proposed change to the bylaws regarding procedures for use of membership lists.

If you don’t have a ballot via the newsletter, here it is, albeit it is the entire full-color 11x17 document prepared for printing on your very own computer….front and back. Just like we distributed.

Looking forward to this. It’s always been a lot of fun.