City Council Meeting Follow-Up

There were several issues that were discussed at the city council meeting Monday evening. Not only was the city council there to discuss new ideas involving the city of Huntington, two local residents were also there to speak of issues involving the city. The first man seemed to have an issue with the cities ability to fine him for not cutting vines that were growing along the border of his fence and his neighbors. In the beginning, he came off as man with just a valid issue but he eventually went on to bring up the problem involving the graffiti on campus and vandalism of Huntington. He rambled on for over 10 minutes about how his grandparents died on the street from doing drugs and proceeded to talk about evolution of the man which was entirely off topic. The man and a city council member has issues and it even escalated to the possibility of a physical confrontation. This was the first time I had experienced something of this magnitude within a city council meeting. One of the topics on the agenda included the 50th anniversary of Gino's pizza being open and a party would be held Friday and Saturday. Another topic included the lights on 3rd Avenue including the traffic signal. They expressed the need for the state to be notified of this problem before any accidents began to happen. One more topic was the purchasing of four high quality cameras for the police station as well as a 2011 Ford Expedition for the fire department at a cost of $27,000.