Glendale Town Council thanks Brinkerhoff for service

GLENDALE - The meeting of the Glen­dale Town Council, held on February 19, was called to order despite the heavy snow that evening. Follow­ing the regular open­ing procedures, the Mayor called to bring a particular item to the top of the agenda: thanking city employ­ee Colton Brinkerhoff for his four years of service, as Brinkerhoff prepared to take up a different job.

Colton Brinkerhoff presented with an honorary painting by the City of Glendale. Photo by Celeste Meyeres.

Said Mayor Chamberlain, “I imagine when you started you felt a lot like I feel now, like it was drinking from a fire hose … and you came through it all like a trooper. You have a lot of knowledge, and it’s going to take a minute for someone to catch up. From the city, we appreci­ate you.” Brinkerhoff was presented with a memorial painting, after which the coun­cil proceeded into the agenda’s discussion items.

The council voted to approve the budgets and minutes from the previous meeting, then proceeded to a discussion of potential cost-saving measures in the city budget. Mayor Chamberlain added, “Some of our monies may not have been dealt with in the best way, Candice and Laurie [with city staff] have done a great job of finding those spots and we’re going to clean them up.”

The following item on the agenda was a discussion of the Text­MyGov service, which has shown more regu­lar use than originally planned and, accord­ing to city staff, posi­tive public feedback that prompted further contracts with the service. A TextMyGov representative called into the meeting to an­swer questions, with the council confirm­ing the service does not cost anything for citizens to sign up and use, how many texts the base plan provides and how to specify to which groups the texts are sent. With the details settled, the council confirmed the start of service in March.

The council then considered unification of the mobile home and trailer park ordinanc­es, which were previ­ously separate with some clarifications in code needed to ensure density clauses prop­erly applied to both, as well as an update to compliance with some associated safety codes. Town policies had previously caused issues with fire insur­ance, and the council agreed to consider best changes to bring the town into compliance and make the code more consistent.

The meeting con­cluded with council reports, confirming plans for the city to correct and maintain some of the city’s water metering equipment and coordinating with Orderville officials for upcoming meet­ing plans. The Mayor presented a few of the candidates to fill Brinkerhoff’s job va­cancy, stating, “We’ve got great candidates … and with Colton leav­ing we’d better pick an applicant as soon as possible.”