Glenwood City Council approves 4-way stop, sets policy for recording meetings
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The Glenwood City Common Council revisited an item that it looked into a year ago and brought it up again approving the installation of a four-way stop on the city’s main street.
They also created a policy governing the recording of meeting of the council.
The four-way stop has been a discussion at previous council meetings and just recently former mayor Rob Uhruh cast the tie breaking vote to leave the intersection of First and Oak Street as is with traffic on First Street having to stop. Now, however the council voted four to one to make that intersection a four-way stop. New council member, Jud Kraft, spoke in favor of the four-way stop with Police Chief Joe Klatt informing the council that there had been a motorcycle vs. car accident at that intersection just recently.
The council learned that the state would only allow a change to a four way stop and would not allow traffic lights as three side of that intersection are state highway 170 and state highway 128.
As of just recently the City Council meetings are now being live-streamed and the council has been working to create policy-governing members of the public that wish to record the public meetings.
Mayor Kent Kletscher read the proposed policy during the open meeting of the council on Monday, September 16th. Part of the policy reads; “In order to avoid potential disruptions to all those in attendance or viewing the meeting, if it is being live-streamed, all recording devices should be given to the presiding officer prior to the start of the meeting. The device will be placed at the front of the meeting space for the duration of the meeting and will be given back to the person recording the meeting after adjournment.”
A local citizen questioned the new policy especially about the recording devise being turned over to the presiding officer, but the mayor indicated that the devise would just be placed at the front of the meeting on the stand that now holds the live-streaming devise.
In other council business they were ready to vote on a new member to the library board when Rochelle Karlson, the city’s librarian, noted that she had not yet met the person that the council was going to place on the board. Karlson informed the council that if she was placed on the library board, it could be a conflict of interest, because that would mean four of the seven-member board work for the local school district. She noted that because of school programs and library programs are some times at the same time and members cannot attend both events. The mayor tabled the appointment for more information.
The council approved the application for exemption from the County Library tax. Approved the annual donation to the Glenwood City Cemetery of $2,000 to cover the years of 2023 and 2024.
