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Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council members to be presented at meeting |
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Monday, 14 September 2009 |
The focus will be on youth at Monday night’s Benton City Council meeting.
The 2009-10 Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council will be presented to the council.
Angela Ross, administrative assistant to Mayor Rick Holland, and Jill Henley, program director at the Boys & Girls Club of Saline County, are the adult sponsors for the group.
The meeting is scheduled to begin with the invocation given by Alex Arnold; the pledge of allegiance will be led by Richard Spencer-Cole; and the national anthem will be sung by Alexandrea Songer. All are member of the Youth Council.
Jordan Fletcher, an officer of the Youth Council, will introduce the honored Youth of the Month, who is Lauren Marshall. Students who are named for the monthly youth honor are not members of the council, but are selected by a vote of that group.
In actual council business, only one agenda item is listed. It is a resolution removing Alderman Doug Stracener and former city finance director John Walden as trustees of the city of Benton and the Benton Utilities Employees pension plans and appointing as their successors Mayor Rick Holland, Alderman Jerry Ponder and finance director Karen Scott.
Jill Jones, executive director of the Benton Advertising and Promotion Commission, is scheduled for a monthly report.
Other reports are possible from the council’s standing committees, which are:
• Community Services, chaired by Alderman Charles Cunningham.
• Streets, chaired by Alderman David Sparks.
• Drainage, chaired by Alderman Greg White.
• Parks, chaired by Alderman Brad Moore.
• Utilities, chaired by Alderman Jerry Ponder.
• Health and Safety, chaired by Alderman Steve Lee.
• Economic Development, chaired by Alderman Doug Stracener.
• Personnel, chaired by Alderman Bill Donnor.
• Animal Control, chaired by Alderman Larry Wolf.
The council meeting is set for 7 p.m. in the council chambers at Benton Municipal Complex and will be preceded by a 6 p.m. agenda session in the mayor’s conference room. All council meetings and committee sessions are open to the public.
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