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Arkansas Municipal League Winter Conference
With the start of a new term for our city leaders, it is nice to see that our Mayor and Recorder/Treasure were fortunate to be able to attend this years winter 2011 Arkansas Municipal League conference. The conferance was held at the Peabody Hotel/Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, AR.
This three day conference provided many great work shops and training classes too. Some of the scheduled programs presented at the conference are listed below:
Jan 12th & 13th
- Managing your municipal organization
- General session on funding sources and assistance programs
City Council Jan 4, 2011
This was the first council meeting of the new year with the newest coucil lineup which includes the newest councilwoman…Sherry Groves. We say goodbye to Bobby Guilliland who has served Hardy as councilman for many years…and thank you Councilman Guilliland, for your service to our community.
Schedule For 2011 Hardy Council And A&P Meetings
The Friends Of Hardy Arkansas wish to thank Mayor for adding us to the notification list for the 2011 year.
This will allow us to send out a email blast and post on our website whenever special meetings are being called. Since these meetings may take place on a short notice the quicker the announcement can get out to you the citizens the better opportunity you will have to hopefully attend them.
The standard meetings are scheduled as follows:
- City Of Hardy Council meetings are held at 124 Woodland Hills Road, Hardy Ar. in the council room 7:00pm the first and third Tuesday of each month for 2011
2011 City Budget Approved
Donna Cruse, with the Main Street Hardy organization appeals to Hardy City Council at their Dec. 21 meeting for their generosity when considering funding the program for the 2011 budget. The organization's funding from the city has been cut in half twice over the last two years. Ultimately, the city budgeted $4,000 for the entire year for Main Street. Few council members were not happy with this figure. Photo/Tammy Curtis
Passage of Hardy’s 2011 Budget was met with some opposition from a few members of the city council who failed to get answers from the budget committee.
Mayor Of Hardy – Report Card Website Update
We are excited to announce our new purpose of the local area report card website designed to ensure information about Hardy, AR is available to the community online. The new site is called www.mayorofhardy.com and is the designated report card website for the officials of the City of Hardy.
The new Mayor Of Hardy Arkansas Report Card website was established by Friends Of Hardy Arkansas to ensure that information about what the Mayor and the Alderman of Hardy do, for and about Hardy are reported and openly discussed about. This site is dedicated to both the vigilant scrutinizing of our local government for and the ongoing education of our fellow citizens about instances of corruption, waste, nepotism, ethics violations, etc.
Main Street Of Hardy, Inc – Goes Online
We are excited and happy to announce that the official Main Street Organization - Main Street Of Hardy, Inc which is part of the Main Street Arkansas program has announced that they are now officially online at their new website address located at www.mainstreethardyarkansas.org. This is the one and only official website address for the local Main Street Program. If you are not sure what the benefits and purpose of this important organization is, we hope you take the time to visit their website and learn more about them.
Merchants On Main Street
The merchants on Main Street wish to invite every local citizen to remember that we are all part of your neighborhood and just like any neighbor we enjoy your company too! So, if you haven’t recently taken the time to walk on Main Street and just browse the stores then we happily invite you to come on down and visit.
We are part of your community and we hope that each and everyone of you can please take the time to walk along our lovely covered sidewalks and stop in our stores. Please, introduce yourselves, if you haven’t already, and lets enjoy some lively conversation. What makes our town so special is the people and the close community we have. We are part of this community and we enjoy it when you, our neighbors, drop in!
City Council Meeting Tonight 7:PM Dec. 7, 2010
MEETING CANCELED DUE TO NO QUORUM
(For those who showed up, we were not informed that it was cancelled but because a few of the Alderman did not show up they had no choice.)
Please make time in your calendar to try to attend the City Council meeting scheduled for this evening at 7:00 pm at City Hall. The 2011 budget is being discussed and if approved, as it was shown on the prior proposal, our cities important Main Street Of Hardy, Inc. historic program will have its budget cut again down to only $4,000.
City Hall Please Support The Main Street Program
Times are hard on business and especially on budgets, but sometimes certain cost must be a priority for a city, especially for a city that much of it’s history is based on it’s tourism. In a memorandum put out on Monday Nov 29, just one day prior to the city budget meeting it was announced that the Main Street Of Hardy, Inc., the official Main Street organization that is part of the Main Street Arkansas program, is going to have it’s budget cut even more.
Run Off Election for Hardy Alderman
We still have one more decision that needs to be settled. That is the runoff election between two Alderman for Melanie Dietsche and Amy Hussung. This runoff is scheduled to be on Nov. 23, 2010.
This is for the City Council – Alderman Ward 1 Position 1 and is still important to be sure to turn out and vote on the 23rd.
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