The meeting began at 7:00 PM with a moment of reflection and Pledge of Allegiance. Vice Mayor Lewis moved to amend the agenda to include Resolution 23-R-30 (crime prevention vehicle), which passed 6-0. Minutes from March 20, 2023 (study session and regular meeting) were approved without comment.
Mayor Herbst presented a proclamation designating May 2023 as Bicycle Month to the Bicycle Advisory Committee. Chuck Smith accepted and highlighted Vandalia's bicycle‑friendly status, a planned connector to Taylorsville Metro Park (expected completion May 2024), and the need for bicycle parking at businesses.
April 17, 2023, City of Andalia Council meeting is now called to order. We'll start with a moment of reflection, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Underground individual liberty and justice draw. Mr. Lewis. Oh, Your Honor, before we get started, I'd like to uh move to amend our agenda to include resolution a resolution 23R30 waiving competitive bidding and authorizing the purchase of one crime prevention vehicle from both towns and forward in the amount of 512 15 and declaring a 2008 Ford Taurus as surplus property. All right, I have a motion by Vice Mayor Lewis to amend uh this evening's agenda to include resolution 23-R-30. Can I have a second? Second. All right. Call the roll. Council member Woods? Yes. Councilmember Blazley? Yes. Council member Parks? Yes. Council member Ayers. Yes. Vice Mayor Lewis? Yes. Mayor Hurst. Yes. And the motion carries 60. Council, you've had an opportunity to review the council study session minutes of March 20th and the Council meeting minutes of March 20th. Are there any comments or corrections? Being done, they stand approved. And that brings us to communications petitions and award. And this evening we're going to issue a proclamation to make the month of May bicycle month. So at this time, I'd like to ask Mr. Chuck Smith to come to the podium. Well, many years. The proclamation says it goes back to 1995, so we've done this quite a few times. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. So anyway, here is the proclamation designating the month of May, the bicycle month. So I'd like to give you the opportunity to tell us a little bit about what's going on with the bicycle community and what we can do as a council to be more involved. Well, I I did want to thank you and the council for all your support of cycling over the years. That's what's uh made this uh possible. Vandyolia is a bicycle-friendly community, and uh we appreciate all that support and also the support of our staff staff, of course. Uh Amber and the staff members are giving us great support over the years, and uh we have some big things coming actually. I've been working on trying to get easy bicycle access to Taylorsville Metro Park for several years now. And uh finally we're going to bring this about and uh yeah, we're we're going to make it happen, and I'm excited about that. Uh that's uh certainly something to look forward to on the horizon. And uh also there are things like encouraging uh cycling in the community. Um we'd like to uh actually have bicycle parking at uh our businesses. Uh the ones that offer that uh to us will that will be very beneficial in getting people out uh riding and uh and another way getting around uh uh the community in another way on two wheels.