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Unofficial Summary of the Gilbert City Council Meeting

Highlights of December 15 city council meeting
At its December 15 meeting, the Gilbert city council hired John Lloyd to be its city administrator/clerk. It's a new position. John recently finished a master's degree at Iowa State and is currently a manager in the ISU residence hall catering department. The council recently hired Carolyn Main to be a part-time, deputy clerk. She had been a temporary worker at city hall under the auspices of USA Staffing.

Yvonne Wannemuehler took the oath of office to be the new mayor effective January 2. Bob Jaquis and Jon Popp also took the oath of office for their positions as city council members. Bob has been the mayor. Jon has been serving in the council position that was vacated when Helen Gunderson resigned from the council in April 2002.

The council also had its second hearing on a proposed comprehensive plan. Helen Gunderson was the only visitor at the meeting to address the plan. She spoke in reference to a letter she had written on December 9 to the mayor, city council, and planning and zoning commission members. The council then went ahead and passed a resolution adopting the plan as it was written with inclusion of any of Helen's suggestions for accuracy and a policy statement.

In other action, the city council approved the appointment of Robert Thompson to the planning and zoning commission and a project presented by 4-H members to put a welcome sign at the west edge of town along Mathews Drive.

This unofficial summary provided by Gilbert Gazette editor, Helen D. Gunderson. When the minutes of a meeting become available (after they are approved at the next council meeting), we will post them. You may also wish to look for the minutes in the fine print of the legal notices in the Ames Tribune about 14 days after a council meeting.

If someone has an eye for proof-reading and finds typos, mis-spelling, grammar, or other errors, please let us know so we can make corrections. It's difficult and time-consuming to prepare the summary, and although it would be wise to find a copy editor before posting the summaries, we feel it is important to make the essence of the material available to the public as soon as possible.

Also, the city council tape records each meeting, and the clerk maintains the cassettes for use in writing the minutes and clarifying future questions about meetings. As far as we know, those tapes are part of the public record (unless the a city uses the tapes only for preparing minutes then destroys the tapes). And as far as we know, citizens and other persons may arrange with the clerk to listen to the tapes at city hall.