Good morning, I am in hopes that all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday as I did. The Council held its first meeting for the month of December. The agenda was fairly standard with the usual approvals of the daily operations of maintaining a city. Council did approve the next years meeting dates and times for Council, GPWA, GIDA, Finance, Street, Transportation, Library,Board of Adjustments, Planning commission, and the rest of the boards and committees involved with the City. In addition Council approved the appointment of Cheri French to the housing authority for the City to fill a vacant seat. Also Mr. David Hood was appointed as alternate judge for the City to fill in when the presiding judge is out. I wish David all the best of luck and appreciate his time to help serve the City of Guthrie. The library was granted to start a program called food for fines. This program allows people to bring non-perishable food products to the library in lieu of late fines. The food will be donated to Gods food bank for distribution. I would also like to take time to thank Mr. John Wood for helping put together the starting points for a new committee for the City of Guthrie. John and I have been working on this new committee and John has put our ideas to paper and, I am very excited about this proposal. I look forward to bringing this proposal to the Council in the near future. I will attach this proposal to the blog for review and comment. To access the proposal please click the link at the top right hand side of the blog. This link will take you to the proposal. I would encourage any comments about the proposal good and bad to help John and I craft something that works for all involved. The proposal is a neighborhood committee made up of citizens from the three wards in Guthrie to help promote neighborhood developments and groups. Please take time to look it over and respond. Again I thank John for all his hard work and dedication and I cant wait to get this program started for the community. Last but not least as we head into the new year the challenges ahead of the City are numerous, but I am confident in our ability to overcome the many challenges and welcome our communities involvement. I look forward to future responses to our proposal so please comment when you can.
Trey Ayers
Councilman Ward 1
