Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - June 5, 2007, Winslow, Arizona OF WINSLOW JUNE 15TH 28 12/19/2007 69 az library po box 6022 86011 Tuesday, June 05, 2007 ds of POW-MIA bikers ride Community mt of Page 8 Start School for 8 Winslow Since 1894 Copy Council seat up for John Sue Bumpus officially resigned from Winslow City a new seat has been opened up and City Council will make an appointment to the vacated seat at next week's June 12 Allan Affeldt asked of the process to choosing a new council is one specific guiding clause that says once resignation has been Council has 31 days the make the said City Administrator Jim Ferguson about the City says no more of the said that as far as he the City Council in the past had chosen to put the word out to the citizenry that they are looking for people that Council from those has been the policy every said City Attorney Dale added that this method of choosing a replacement for an open Council seat is more of a procedure than a Judy Howell would like Council to consider that a year ago spoke and Bumpus elected over Crain by only six We should consider the person with the next highest amount of votes to be put into office the citizens of Winslow showed who they wanted to see in office and I think we need to honor said Council could have established the process for replacement that but to discuss might Peter Cake I would like to get the word out and have applications sent a little nervous about doing it Patton think probably legally you but you would have to put them in tomorrow and would not have any public input essentially at this proposed to postpone the appointment of anyone to Council that Cake Council Howell voted the seven people interested in being appointed to Winslow City most expect to be at the next Council meeting to speak to Council and the It will be on June 12 seek appointment for vacant Council interested in fining the talic about why they be a good Council Many candidates the majority of City Council has already decided who they will WEDNESDAY Partly THURSDAY FRIDAY Sunny Hi 84"' SATURDAY Sunny Hi 89 Mostly Sunny Hi 89 MONDAY Sunny Hi 88 10 56 John Roy the last City Council election Roy Crain had the next highest amount of only six behind Sue for an election that a candidate will ask for a but Crain approached Council then and said he accepted the results and did not want to burden the city of Winslow with a Crain has applied for the Planning and Zoning Three seats have come up on Planning and Zoning and never was his name mentioned for Neither was another applicant Leroy he did not even talk to me or have an he it was Crain's stature and independent thinking that scared them as he is known around town to be a man with many ideas many on Council are out there talking to the people of he the citizens who are the The city attorney and city administrator work for the is an engineer for the railroad and is near the top on the seniority which will allow him time to dedicate to the Crain has raised his kids here and plans on staying in is blessed with many good but we got to get away from this good boy he of the most important issues to Crain are 1.Water rights and 2. Whether or not Winslow can stand on it's own economically or just become a bedroom community to Flagstaff 3. Keeping City spending to a level within its 4.Creating developer impact and 5. Fixing sidewalks - to name a people of Winslow voted on this already and should not have to do this otherwise it is just going to be a political play Christie resident of Christie Sanchez has been following City Council for some She is interested in being appointed most important issue to Sanchez was to see Winslow especially to become a wonderful place to live again like when she was a bustling little town - now look at she said that this is a result of the City Council attitudes before Mayor Allan where for over a decade under Jim businesses were discouraged from establishing themselves in need more things for people to do in That is why everyone goes to she we had more businesses and things to do it would help keep our youth out of said she is proud of Affeldt who has done more for Winslow in a year than Winslow's recent Sanchez said she agrees with his philosophy that new and more people need to be revolved into positions of leadership and is a division on Council now they only do what benefits them and their she on Council are only up there looking for praise and recognition when they cannot even run their own said there are a couple of Council members who are not afraid to speak but the majority of Council doesn't want to hear these people ill Winslow knew that their input could be listened to by then more people would be willing to Thomas and raised in Thomas a long time Forest Service says he has much knowledge and experience with the operation of government and dealing with people on of the most important issues to Chacon are water rights economic the need to managing growth and seeing that the city of Winslow be able to generate capital improvement the City has maximized what they have to he said the City should consider long-range planning with water since it is so alkaline around Winslow and break many water heaters and He said it would be cheaper for everyone if the water treatment center cleaned the water better before it goes out to the who in said that many things have changed in Winslow since the days of many people are mixed though Winslow still has some but that should not get in the way of what needs to be he Director Steve Owens announces additional grant to Winslow to cleanup of on the funding to Winslow's the Comer Park now Totals Environmental Director TO CONTACT recently is awarding W. First grant 289-2467 the city of Winslow to 289-4151 the cleanup of the the the USPS 686-960 The new award 1521-6993 ADEQ's total funding for 2007, Northern to which largest amount of Postage has ever provided to Ariz. 86047 community under the 114 ment's Brownfields State 23 Grant is an unprecedented amount of money under our Brownfields Owens it will be worth every penny of it to get the on the Comer site cleaned up and the park said that has previously provided roughly to Winslow for the but it recently became clear that additional funding is needed to complete the cleanup because of recent complications on the Because the money is coming from federal dollars under Brownfields had to receive a special waiver from EPA to give Winslow more than Owens added that because of the importance of this cleanup he personally contacted deputy administrator in the second-in-command at the to expedite approval of the on the Comer monument is a and we put on a press to get the waiver Owens deserves the extra and we appreciate willingness to work with us to provide the funding to the on the Corner park and monument were closed after a fire gutted the former J.C. Building in October 2004 and created an environmental A mural on an exterior wall of the building is an integral part of the but fire damage rendered the wall making the park unsafe for about asbestos contamination in the charred rubble have prevented efforts to remove the debris and reopen the city of Winslow has been implementing a cleanup plan with the grant funds provided by In addition to providing the will continue to work with the city and technical oversight of the by John vistors drive down the one-way Second they may not see on the Corner if there is a wall in the This truck is almost to the corner and the statue is barely in
