City Council set to discuss filling vacant city administrator job at Feb. 7 meeting
It has been almost a month since former-Sandpoint City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton resigned her position, effective Jan. 3, and members of the City Council will discuss how — or even whether — to fill the job at their regular Feb. 7 meeting.
Councilor Joel Aispuro and new Council President Jason Welker expressed support for having that conversation as early as the Jan. 3 meeting, even before the current council and mayor had been sworn in.
“That should be a discussion we have as soon as possible,” Welker said at the time.
In a follow up email Jan. 30, Welker told the Reader that the urgency to address the vacancy flows from both city and state statute, which stipulates that the mayor is obligated to fill empty appointive positions with the consent of City Council. However, “Should the mayor make an appointment that council does not approve, the mayor would have 10 days to bring another name, or the council would be able to appoint someone of their own choosing,” he wrote.
Mayor Jeremy Grimm, who campaigned in part on eliminating the city administrator job, said the discussion “comes down to the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches of government.”
Meanwhile, Welker told the Reader that eliminating the position would require a code change. However, “I think the direction we’re most likely going to go is restructuring … with a new job description that the mayor and council will work together to craft.”
“I don’t think anyone desires to have a city administrator that wields the kind of power and influence over the agenda that we had under our previous administration,” he added. “The people of Sandpoint deserve leadership that is accountable to voters and responsive to the interests of residents first and foremost.”
The Sandpoint City Council will meet Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 5:30 p.m. in council chambers at City Hall, 1123 Lake St. Go to sandpointidaho.gov and follow the “Meetings” link to participate via Zoom.
Written by: Zach Hagadone / Staff Writer
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The Bulldogs got here out in full spirit mode on the war for the Paddle, an annual spirit competition towards Lakeland high college on Friday, Jan. 19.
SHS put up an awesome fight with students braving the bloodless and icy roads to come out dressed to follow the theme of “Race to the Paddle” or a NASCAR theme.
The event started out strongly with a girls' basketball sport with SHS strolling away with a win, the crowds pumping up the crew and the game coming down to the very last second. the sport changed into one of the victories that SHS walked away with that night in addition to the rowing race, that's a race on “boats” on wheels maneuvered throughout the gym with plungers. for the duration of the entire night, the respective cheer teams ran to the ground to expose off their exercises and helped to get the gang pumped.
SHS students took middle stage for the well-known lip sync struggle element manner via the night, following the subject with songs like “close Up and drive” with the aid of Rhianna and “Bust your windows” by using Jazmine Sullivan. Senior Jack Landon changed into a part of the lip sync conflict and was particularly famous when he broke out the “stanky leg” at some point of the dance-off component.
“It changed into a first-rate time dancing,” Landon stated. “It become genuinely exciting to hype up the crowd with Sydney Meshberg. I had a very good time dancing; it changed into an excellent time going out supporting Sandpoint excessive faculty and it changed into a reminiscence i'm able to in no way neglect.”
The nighttime became long and loud, with college students screaming for the duration of the decibel readings and cheering and yelling their hearts out.
“I notion that there was no longer a whole lot of SHS pupil frame that showed up, so we had a disadvantage,” Madeleine Mitchell, a member of the band and junior at SHS, said. Their crowd changed into honestly more involved, but we placed up a very good fight. I’m hoping that hosting the occasion subsequent 12 months will provide us a leg up.”
conflict for the Paddle is graded by impartial judges from different colleges in the location and includes over 10 categories. at the same time as Sandpoint changed into capable of come away with victories inside the girls' basketball recreation, the rowing race, and the artwork contest, Lakeland walked away with the overall win for the nighttime.
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