City Council Announcements
A. Information Needed by Council Staff
1. The Council has received an invitation to the ULCT’s Local Officials’ Day at the Legislature. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, January 26, 2011 from 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Council Members Christensen and Love have already been registered for the event. The deadline for registration is January 10, 2011.
Would any other Council Members like to attend the event? Council Members Martin and Penfold (?) wanted to attend.
2. Council Member Christensen was approached by Sgt. Brock Jones with the National Guard regarding Salt Lake City’s participation in a program supporting service members of all branches of the military. The purpose of the program is to assist these service members and their families find community resources available to support them.
The Administration is interested in working collaboratively with the Council on the project. Karen Hale is the Administration contact in the Mayor’s office.
Is the Council interested in participating in initial discussions? A meeting is being scheduled with Council Member Christensen, Karen Hale, Jill Atwood with the VA and others.
Is the Council interested in learning more about this program? Councilmember Love asked that Councilmember Christensen let the other Council Members know when the meetings were.
3. At the beginning of each calendar year, Public Utilities Department identifies available months for Council Members to include a Council District newsletter insert as part of the Public Utilities mailing in 2011. Available months are: February, August and December, maximum of three Council District newsletters for each month.
Council Districts 2, 4 and 6 are up for election this year. To stay in keeping with the Council policy noted below, Council Members in the even districts should consider the months of February and December for a newsletter insert in the Public Utilities mailing.
“Using the U.S. Congress once again as a guide, Council Members who are up for reelection should not mail out Council newsletters any later than ten weeks before a primary election. There are less than ten weeks between Utah municipal primary and general elections and therefore no Council Member up for election should mail out a newsletter between the primary and general elections.”
Please let Council staff know if you are interested in utilizing the Public Utilities mailing for a newsletter and the month you wish to publish a newsletter. For Council Members interested in February, Council staff would need to complete Council Members newsletters by the end of January to meet the February Public Utilities mailing date. Ms. Gust-Jenson said if a Council Member wanted to have their newsletter in February, they needed to know right away so staff could start writing it. She said those who were up for election needed to avoid using August because the rules did not allow the Council to mail anything during that time period. She said that would be District 2, 4 and 6. She asked the Council to let their liaisons know so if there were more than three people for any one time slot they could get back to the Council. Councilmember Turner said he had talked to his liaison and he would take February. Councilmember Simonsen said he was interested in doing two newsletters a year even if the Council had to pay Public Utilities to do the mailings. Ms. Gust-Jenson said she would check to make sure the information was current. Councilmember Simonsen said if there was another February slot he would take that one. Ms. Gust-Jenson said that would be Council Members Turner, Garrott and Simonsen for February. She said they would need Council Members not up for election in August and then there would be an opportunity in December for the other Council Members.
ADDITIONAL
City Council Announcements
January 4, 2011
A. For Your Information
1. Reminder
The Annual Legislative Breakfast is scheduled for Friday, January 7, 2011.
The breakfast will be held at the Sorenson Unity Center (1383 South 900 West) from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Ms. Gust-Jenson reminded the Council of the Legislative Breakfast. She said that would be discussed more when the Council had their Legislative briefing this evening.