[Vision2020] "Moscow Cares" Website (Update 020609-01)

[Tom Hansen]

Greetings VIsionaires -

The "Moscow Cares" website has been updated to include videos, and related 
committee reports, of the following segments of the February 2, 2009 
Moscow City Council session.

1)  Proposed Ordinance Change to Excavation Permit Deposit/Bond Amount.
(Passed 6-0)

http://www.MoscowCares.com/020209_05_PropOrdChgExcavPer.htm
 
City Council recently passed Resolution No. 2009-01 changing the amount of 
the deposits for excavation permits. The City Code currently indicates 
that the security deposit shall be up to an amount of two thousand dollars 
($2,000) and in accordance with the rate schedule adopted by City Council. 
In order to allow for the possibility of security deposits in an amount 
greater than two thousand dollars ($2,000), the Code should be amended. 
The proposed amendment will allow the Council to change the amounts for 
deposits and/or bonds related to excavation permits without the further 
necessity of changing City Code. This was reviewed by the City Council on 
January 20, 2009, and was tabled at that time in order to have the City 
Attorney review the language. Minor changes have been proposed and were 
reviewed by the Public Works/Finance Committee on January 26, 2009.

2)  Proposed Ordinance to Clarify Relative Duties and Responsibilities of 
Public Works Director and City Engineer.
(Passed 6-0)

http://www.MoscowCares.com/020209_06_PropOrdDutRespPWDCityEngr.htm
 
Recently the City created the office of City Engineer separate from the 
Public Works Director and redrafted the job descriptions for each. Because 
there are numerous references to the Public Works Director and to the City 
Engineer in the current Moscow City Code that do not reflect their current 
job descriptions and relative duties, it is proposed that the Moscow City 
Code be amended to reflect the current responsibilities. Reviewed by the 
Administrative Committee on January 26, 2009.

Next Moscow City Council session: February 17, 2009 (Tuesday)

Like so many times before, and so many times yet to come, you may access 
this stuff and loads of other Moscow stuff at . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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