Here are the meeting notes for the Bend City Council for the month of November, just in time for this month’s first meeting on Wednesday. The biggest point of contention for the month (at least as far as councilor votes go) is the proposed ordinance amending the Bend Code to … Continue reading

Here are the Bend City Council meeting notes for the month of October. A quick scan through the notes didn’t reveal any huge issues, mostly the usual order of business, although the first of the month meeting had a fair number of the public speaking out against a proposed cell … Continue reading

Here are the Bend City Council meeting notes for the months of August and September. Not as timely as I’d like, but still posting them! Bend City Council meeting notes, 8/7/19 (MS Word doc) Bend City Council meeting notes, 8/21/19 (MS Word doc) Bend City Council meeting notes, 9/4/19 (MS … Continue reading

Back around March my email fell off the list for receiving meeting notes from the Bend City Council, and that didn’t get resolved until a couple of months ago. I’d fallen behind on posting those but I think now I’ve got most of them since the March meetings. Here they … Continue reading

Here are the February notes from the two Bend City Council meetings earlier this month. Bend City Council meeting notes for 2/6/19 (MS Word doc) Bend City Council meeting notes for 2/20/19 (MS Word doc) Pretty standard city business, though a number of folks (in the visitor comments) have Mirror … Continue reading

When I posted the January City Council notes, I noted the controversy regarding the selection of Chris Piper to fill the vacant City Council seat that was opened by Sally Russell’s mayoral election win. In particular, not only was Piper not the top choice by any councilor for the position, … Continue reading

Here are the Bend City Council meeting notes for the month of January of this new year. It’s been an interesting month for the Council, with the swearing in of Mayor Sally Russell (Bend’s first directly elected mayor in almost a century) as well as two new councilors, and the … Continue reading

Let’s kick off the new year by reviewing what the Bend City Council covered at last month’s meetings. Issues on duplex/triplex development, plastic bags, extending downtown parking district areas, septic-to-sewer conversion, Mirror Pond dredging, Crow’s Feet Commons noise, and winding down the year. And more. Bend City Council meeting notes, … Continue reading

I was waiting to see if there were any notes for a second Bend City Council meeting this month, but apparently there was none; only the first Wednesday (November 7) saw a meeting. (The other would have been last week, the day before Thanksgiving.) So, here are the notes for … Continue reading

Here are the meeting notes from October’s two Bend City Council meetings; the Council did finally censure Nathan Boddie at last week’s meeting, who (had to?) abstained from the voice vote on approval of the motion statement. Which of course was the main thing that happened that night. Bend City … Continue reading