{"id":16985,"date":"2024-06-01T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=16985"},"modified":"2024-06-01T07:11:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:11:58","slug":"warm-weather-thoughts-turn-to-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/warm-weather-thoughts-turn-to-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm weather thoughts turn to \u2026 budgets!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BY BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather is warm (sometimes hot!), the activities are multiple and flourishing, and thoughts of a new year are far in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless, that is, you are a member of the Rickord Administration and Decatur City Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At council&#8217;s latest meeting, Mayor Dan Rickord pointed to the need to begin turning thoughts to next year&#8217;s budget. Yes, the 2025 budget!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said department heads need to start thinking of new budget numbers, and that he and Clerk-Treasurer Kevin Hackman would begin meetings with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the mayor noted, it&#8217;s time to give some preliminary thoughts to 2025 raises for city employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AND SO ON: Also at the meetings of city council and the city&#8217;s board of works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Final approval went to a handicap parking space at 247 N. Sixth St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The board of works gave the okay to have a Slow Children At Play sign on W. Deer Run Creek. Local resident Bob Becker had informed the board that numerous children play in a cul-de-sac area there and vehicle speeds pose a danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The street department will determine where the sign is placed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Due to various discrepancies, the board of works rejected all quotes received for Phase 3 of the improvement plans for the S. 13<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;St. corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project includes signalization and handicap improvements at the intersection of S 13<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and Winchester St. Extended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Council unanimously approved making a $2,500 contribution to the Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s July 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;fireworks show, at the Chamber&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Barb Engle returned to her post as the keeper of record for the minutes of the council meeting. She had been out following surgery, with Cherie Bienz of the clerk-treasurer&#8217;s office filling in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The weather is warm (sometimes hot!), the activities are multiple and flourishing, and thoughts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["post-16985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DAAB3A7443DD472C96916574827CBE41.jpg?fit=408%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}