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2 council meetings scheduled next week

By William Hoover
Anvil Herald Correspondent

     A scheduling conflict with the organization that works to promote the city’s business and tourism environment, the Hondo Area Chamber of Commerce, has resulted in the need for two council meetings next week. The regular city council meeting will be held in City Hall at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9, and a special council meeting will be held in the same time and place the next day, Wednesday, Feb. 10.
     Hondo City Council will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday to allow newly elected Place 3, 4 and 5 council members Eric Torres, Ann-Michelle Long and Keith Lutz to take the oath of office and be officially sworn-in as council representatives. The council is also obligated by the city charter to consider Mayor Jim Danner’s veto of the three parks board appointments made at the Jan. 19 meeting, by the then two-man council of Mike Sanchez and Clyde Haak. In an effort to keep the Tuesday meeting short, the mayor reported that only two necessary action items will be on that agenda. The remaining items, a full agenda, will be considered and acted upon the following night.
     Danner hopes to keep Tuesday’s meeting brief so that the city’s elected officials can have an opportunity to attend the annual Hondo Area Chamber of Commerce recognition and awards banquet.
     “We put the veto item on the agenda because it’s supposed to be considered at the first regular meeting of the full council after I take such action,” said the mayor. “The agenda for the Feb. 10 meeting will contain everything that would have normally been considered Tuesday, except for the veto consideration and the swearing-in ceremony.”
     Danner said Wednesday’s agenda would likely be a long one because there were many business items which had been placed on hold since Oct. 19, when the council members recalled on May 9 were officially removed from office by the Department of Justice.
     A few new items and several policy decisions made by council while the recalled council members had been temporarily reinstated will be reviewed by the new council next Wednesday, according to the mayor.
     “We need to review some things and start moving ahead on some of the things that we postponed,” said Danner.

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