Getting With The Program

The Official Unofficial Minutes of the WL BOA
April 11th

The first change the Mayor/Steve has announced/implemented is his approach to the Aldermen and their integration into the operation of the City. 

This has been tried before, but certainly not in the recent past.  The concept is to assign each alderman an area within the City to act as a kind of liason, or as Steve puts it, "collateral duties".

He announced the following assignments for Aldermen:

• Hoy-Public Works
• Richmond-Police
• Footer-Administration Staff, Financial, Communication
• Finn-Community Engagement

While the Mayor is Chief Administrative Officer and City Staff reports to him, this gives the Aldermen an opportunity to be more fully involved (and aware) of activities in each area.  Some examples of activities include Finn as the City representative to the WLIC and Footer investigating upgrades to the City website and other means of communications to citizens of WL.  This is an evolving concept that will develop over time.