Tonight - No Public Hearing

(the picture has NOTHING to do with NHS, it's just my favorite Christmas movie)

There won't be a quorum tonight for an official public hearing on the code. I believe that since it was advertised there will be some folks there for a work session at 6:30pm if you are interested. I know with the holidays and all it's tough to get away.

Barring any significiant events in the near future, I'll just take the time now to say Happy Holidays to all my North High Shoals neighbors. See you in 2010.

Thank you from Violet Dawe, Mayor pro tem

Violet had me upload a nice thank you letter she prepared today. Take a look at it here.

Last night

We weren't able to have a public hearing on the city code last night. Not sure where Councilman Cape was as there was no email earlier in the day letting us know if he was going to join us or not. I hope he's okay. We had another work session on the code, instead. Mr. Cape didn't show by our regularly scheduled meeting time of 7:30pm so we didn't have a quorum to have our monthly meeting. A quorum is unnecessary for the swearing in of newly elected officials so we did that instead. We had a great turnout and you can view pictures here.

Reflecting on 2009, it was a year dominated by our work on the Town Charter and city code. It's important for towns to have their laws written down, compiled and accessible to all. We are doing that, and by February I'm sure it will be complete. I also have to say that having a town clerk and town treasurer made a great difference in what we can accomplish. They were instrumental in the smooth running of the town and also in finding funds (through grants) to take care of some needs. Grants are crucial to a small town on a limited budget. Without Kate & Carolyn we wouldn't have been nearly as successful. Our election in November ran smoothly and without complaint. It was also the year that our long serving Mayor stepped down, as well as 8 year council veteran Fred Johnson. They both acknowledged that new blood can breath life into a small town, and we all look forward to this in the new year.

Keep next Monday open. We going to try once more for a first public hearing on the code. If we have a quorum, great. If not, we'll have a short work session...it is the holidays after all.

Soldiers at Christmas

Good write-up in the ABH

Good job Violet Dawe and Stephen Arnold. I hope we can all focus on doing positive things for our community in the coming year.

Meeting Monday

Hi All,

Forgot to mention that on Monday December 7th we will have a work session (or if we have a quorum - the first public hearing) for the city code. I'll be there, as will Fred Johnson and Violet Dawe. We need one more person for a quorum. Will he show or will he simply be too busy? It is the Christmas season, perhaps he'll be at Rockefeller Center in New York to see the beautiful tree. Perhaps he'll be on a road trip to Tiger Ridge in Savannah to see the Christmas light display. Maybe he'll stick closer to home. At Flicker in Athens, they are having a Ping Pong tournament, also on Monday the Town and Gown Theatre is holding auditions for its February production of the award-winning musical Mame. Perhaps that will keep him away. Tune in Monday night at 6:30pm to find out. The suspense is killing us!

So, show up at 6:30pm on Monday Dec. 7th for a code hearing (or work session), and stay for the regular meeting at 7:30pm. The agenda is here.

Please get your stuff to the Post Office by Friday!

To get packages to people in Afghanistan we must mail them on Friday. Please drop off anything you want to sent in the bin in the High Shoals Post Office.

Support our local soldiers. North High Shoals is collecting items to send to soldiers serving overseas. Details can be found here.
Thank you for your support, and thanks to one of our newest councilpersons (Stephen Arnold) for taking the initiative in this.