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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
REARDAN – Due to the lack of action items and, as councilmember Clay Soliday noted, the concurrent Gonzaga men’s basketball game, council’s Feb. 4 meeting was adjourned after less than 20 minutes after reports from public works, police and the mayor.
Public works report
Public works director Bob Winn noted the many roads that have been tormented with potholes in town due to springtime weather. He said his department couldn’t do much at this time, because, “if I start grating, it’s going to make a bigger mess.”
“We’re going to have to deal with it until the roads get dried out,” Winn said. “I’m going to have to cut a lot of potholes this year.”
Winn plans to begin filling and cutting potholes once the weather gets drier.
Police report
Police chief Andy Manke reported that he’s working on a two-year grant for $250,000 to hire an additional, full-time officer.
“The Washington Traffic Safety Commission (would) foot the bill,” Manke said. “It’s part of their ‘walkers and rollers target zero deaths in Washington State’ (initiative) and has to do with the number of crosswalks we have in town, which is 10.”
The department had 14 calls for service in January. 60 traffic stops were made, with 41 verbal warnings and 16 notice of infractions. Eight criminal traffic citations and one non-traffic criminal citation, a fourth-degree assault/domestic violence assault, were given. Three felony warrant arrests were made.
Mayor’s report
Mayor Gail Daniels noted a flyer that went out in water bills that included a way to petition Gov. Jay Inslee to re-open the town, “so that our businesses can re-open and continue to thrive (and) survive.”
Daniels sat in a mayor’s meeting sponsored by Margie Hall of the Economic Development Council, who shared details from economist Doug Tweedy’s report concerning Lincoln County’s 2020 economic outlook and developments. A story by Hall relating Tweedy’s observations is on page 2 of this week’s edition of The Times.
Council’s next regular meeting is Feb. 18 at 6 p.m.
Drew Lawson is the former managing editor of the Davenport Times and a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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