During yesterday’s Town Meeting, local resident, Nancy Menard complained about lack of ‘code enforcement’ in her neighborhood.

Nancy’s comments prompted this response from Councilman Don Feldhaus

Feldhaus said in April, the council will discuss new ways the city can deal with absentee landlords who don’t care about the property they rent out. One option includes requiring all landlords to register with the city.

So the best solution is to have landlords ‘register’ like sex offenders? There is no mention of which code is being enforced, or why the city would want landlords to register. Private property ownership is a matter of public record, why is additional beauracy needed, can’t the city just lookup the County records?

Greeley City Council changed qualifications for new and expanding businesses to recieve tax and fee waivers

new businesses and existing ones creating jobs will have to pay full-time employees the Weld average wage to qualify for the fee waiver. For the second quarter of 2006 — the most recent data filed with the Colorado Department of Labor — the average wage in Weld was $649 per week. That is approximately $34,268 per year.

The Greeley City Council are working on their goals for 2007.

For comparison, here is a list of the Council’s 2006 goals.

What do you think the city council should have for goals this year?

In response to concerns by local home builders, the Greeley City Council has decided to postpone raising impact fees on new construction.

John DeWitt of the Greeley Area Realtor Association questioned why the council proposed the fees at the time it did.

“Higher impact fees can have a devastating impact on new home sales,” DeWitt said.

Greeley City Council is looking to allocate almost a million dollars to repair roads damaged during recent winter storms.

The Council is also looking at raising fees on new housing developments in Greeley - a questionable move in a soft housing market…

After months (or at least what seemed like months) of work the new Greeley sign out at the U.S. 34 Bypass and U.S. 34 Business (10th Street) interchange is complete. Price tag, a cool $535,000.

Now all of those commuters to Ft. Morgan, Brush, Akron and Sterling will know when they get to Greeley.

Now the only question is, how long before somebody vandalizes it (and how much with the sandblasting cost)?

The voters in Greeley’s Ward I have spoken. LeRoy Johnson has been recalled and Janet Branham has been elected.

Branham is 57 year old retired Greeley police crime analyst. She worked for the City of Greeley for almost 32 years before retiring in May of this year and was ineligible for election until her retirement.

Looks like Bill Hoff is trying to get the word out about his Ward I Greeley City Council candidacy. He (or someone using his name) posted two prewritten comments in two separate locations on this site.

I’m going to delete two of them, the other two are comments on the Recall election set for December 12 post.

Bill, If you read this post, I would suggest caution in this type of activity. Canned responses like this are often regarded as spam. If you would like to write an original post for our site I would be happy to let you publish it verbatim as a guest blogger.

City Council is having a town meeting

Greeley residents are invited to the Greeley City Council’s town meeting on Tuesday from 5:30- 6:30 p.m. at the Jackson Elementary School gymnasium, 2005 25th St
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The city council holds these meeting four times a year to get comments and suggestions from the public. There is no specific agenda for the meeting.

Greeley City Council has set the date for the Ward I recall election to December 12. This is an election to recall Council Member Leroy Johnson. Along with Johnson, Carlos Leal, Bill Hoff, Janet Branham and Tom Chagolla are running for this Council Seat. I encourage any of the candidates to contact Greeley Elections, I will be glad to post any statements by them.

Not sure which Ward you are in, Ward I consists of the northeast corner of Greeley, most of the area north of 16th street and east of 35th Ave.