Saturday Night Ride With Lyons’ Finest

To help me prepare for meaningful service on both the Public Safety Committee and the Policy Committee, I asked Lyons Police Chief Wesley Walker if I could ride along with one of his police officers while they were on patrol. I reasoned that I would be in a better position to properly review budget requests,…

City Council Meeting 02-06-2018

Here are the highlights from the  February 6, 2018 meeting of the Lyons City Council: We reviewed the financial statements for the calendar year just ended. Director Michele Johnson updated us on the activities of the Toombs-Montgomery Chamber of Commerce. The Council rejected all bids on repairing and expanding the NE Wastewater Treatment Plant and…

City Seeks GMA Counsel on Sewage Issue

On December 14, 2017, the City of Lyons opened the bids to refurbish both our NE and SE Sewage Treatment Facilities and increase the capacity of our NE facility. Our engineering consultant, Hofstadter and Associates, had predicted the cost to be around $14 million. The city was hoping for a minimum bid of around $12…

City Council Meeting – 01/04/18

At this evening’s meeting, the first order of business was to swear in the three councilmen that had been elected on November 7, 2017 to serve four year terms, beginning January 1, 2018. John Moore, Jr. and I were being sworn in for the first time, and Ben Mitchell was sworn in for another term,…

A New Councilman Takes Office

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