Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Next Order Of Business: Filling Vacant City Council Seat
Update: On Tuesday, June 22 Kimball City Council met in special session and Christy Warner was nominated and approved to fill the vacant seat on the council. See the details in the July 1 edition of Observer.
A short but eventful Kimball City Council meeting June 15 ended in a stalemate with no immediate solution for seating an entire four-member council board.
But a temporary solution was reached to fill the position of city administrator when Mayor Keith Prunty appointed William Hinton as interim administrator and the council approved it 3-0. Hinton runs the electric department.
The final agenda item under current business was to approve and authorize a special election to fill the council vacancy created when Kim Baliman resigned earlier this year.
When councilman Creg Pike made a motion to approve the special election, members of the public in the audience began commenting on the issue, so the motion went no further.
After the public comment session ened, Pike again motioned to approve the special election, but the motion died due to a lack of a second.
The situation could change soon. The council was expected to look for a resolution to the vacancy problem at a scheduled 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, special session. According to state statute, the vacancy should be filled with 45 days. The seat has been vacant since April 20.
The special meeting was scheduled for the Kimball County Transit Conference Room on June 22 at 5 p.m. to discuss and approve an appointment to fill city the council vacancy or approve a possible special election in lieu of an appointment.
In other business, the third and final reading of Ordinance 789, which has to do with vehicle parking during the winter months, passed. It reads: “Recreational vehicles, campers, cabin trailers, motor homes, boats, personal watercraft, and utility trailers may not be parked on public streets within the City of Kimball from Oct. 1 through March 31.”
Details of Ordinance 789 can be found in the city’s municipal code.