July 2024 Spotlight on Mount Vernon with Mayor Matt Starr

Mount Vernon Mayor Matt Starr shared updates on the City with The Morning Thing on Friday, 7/26/24.

Click HERE to hear the full conversation.

Topics included:

• A discussion about current construction and maintenance projects for the city. He shares the progress of these projects:
  • North end construction – complete reconstruction of Nuce and Marma Drive
  • 586 concrete and grading work for sidewalks and crosswalks
  • CA & C Depot concrete parking lot
  • Splash Pad and Pavilion construction
  • North Catherine Street
  • West End water meter inspections and replacements and flood plane inventory
    
• Mayor Starr gives an update from City Departments:
  • Recreation Department evaluation on Civic Recreation Features software
  • City Snowplows will be painted at August First Friday
  • Street Department fixing traffic lights and traffic signal flow
  • Brick Street Repair
  • Open positions for the City – Civil Service Exam for a Public Works Technician and Traffic Light Technician
  • Utilities Department update
  • Human Resources Integrated System to modernize the payroll system

• Mayor Starr shares information and updates from the City’s updated Zoning Code. The City Council recently approved the rewrite 5-2.

• Mayor Starr shares updates from Mount Vernon City Council:
  • Update on the postponement of the recreational marijuana ordinance
  • Development of a compensation review commission
  • Ballot language for the Edgewood Road improvement project
  • Explanation for the use of the emergency clause for resolutions
    
• Mayor Starr shares an update from the Mount Vernon Police Department.
  • New portable radios
  • Positions that have been filled
  • State Grant of $2 million dollars from the One Time Strategic Community Investment Fund.
    
• Mayor Starr shares an update from the Mount Vernon Fire Department.
  • A new Captain has been hired – Lt. Ben Harrod
  • New Hire Exam is completed
    
• Mayor Starr talks about the Knox County Fair and shares a message with the 1,300 youth participating with projects this year.
  
• Mayor Starr talks about the Together Knox Team that is rewriting the Knox County comprehensive plan.
  
• Mayor Starr shares a list of events planned for the City in August.
  • August First Friday
  • Volunteers of the Year recognition (at August First Friday) – Janis Stone and Kevin Mishey
  • Opening of Catherine Street
  • Mount Vernon Music & Arts Festival
    
• He shares goals for August and shares how we can pray for him and his team.

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