The Bend City Council kicked off a new year of meetings this month, taking place the past two Wednesdays (Wednesday the 1st was a holiday so it had been pushed a week). Here are the notes from those meetings: Bend City Council meeting notes, 1/8/20 (MS Word doc) Bend City … Continue reading
I don’t often post press releases from the City here, but the one I received today is interesting as it relates to traffic issues as well as a potential May bond issue. Titled “Bend City Council Takes Another Step Toward May Transportation Bond Measure,” it spun out of last night’s … Continue reading
The final roundup of Bend City Council meeting notes for the year are here, finishing off December of 2019. The meeting on the 4th had a big segment devoted to the Bend Climate Mitigation plan, particularly the section making home energy efficiency increases (as I understand it) mandatory. Councilors Moseley … Continue reading
Here are the meeting notes for the Bend City Council for the month of November, just in time for this month’s first meeting on Wednesday. The biggest point of contention for the month (at least as far as councilor votes go) is the proposed ordinance amending the Bend Code to … Continue reading
Here are the Bend City Council meeting notes for the month of October. A quick scan through the notes didn’t reveal any huge issues, mostly the usual order of business, although the first of the month meeting had a fair number of the public speaking out against a proposed cell … Continue reading
The City of Bend has launched a “one-minute survey” to get the public’s feedback on safe travel and traffic improvements. I filled it out and it is indeed about a minute to two minutes worth of time. Here’s the press release info: The City is working on ways to improve … Continue reading
Here are the Bend City Council meeting notes for the months of August and September. Not as timely as I’d like, but still posting them! Bend City Council meeting notes, 8/7/19 (MS Word doc) Bend City Council meeting notes, 8/21/19 (MS Word doc) Bend City Council meeting notes, 9/4/19 (MS … Continue reading
Back around March my email fell off the list for receiving meeting notes from the Bend City Council, and that didn’t get resolved until a couple of months ago. I’d fallen behind on posting those but I think now I’ve got most of them since the March meetings. Here they … Continue reading
Here are the February notes from the two Bend City Council meetings earlier this month. Bend City Council meeting notes for 2/6/19 (MS Word doc) Bend City Council meeting notes for 2/20/19 (MS Word doc) Pretty standard city business, though a number of folks (in the visitor comments) have Mirror … Continue reading
When I posted the January City Council notes, I noted the controversy regarding the selection of Chris Piper to fill the vacant City Council seat that was opened by Sally Russell’s mayoral election win. In particular, not only was Piper not the top choice by any councilor for the position, … Continue reading