Muldraugh City Council accepted resignations at their regular monthly meeting Monday evening.
Mayor Joseph Noon announced he had received a letter of resignation from Police Chief Charles Ashbaugh effective the end of this month. Upon the recommendation of Chief Ashbaugh, the council unanimously voted to appoint Officer Dale Harp as Police Chief effective August 1. The City is taking applications for a new police officer to fill the position made available by the promotion of Officer Harp.
Later in the meeting Code Enforcement Officer Ron Grammer gave his verbal resignation effective July 29. The council took no action concerning the appointment of a new Code Enforcement Officer.
Fire Chief Danny Dresel told the council the department will be participating in the Meade County Fair parade on July 24 and will be on duty at the fair on Thursday night for the Demo Derby and the fireworks.
Public Works Supervisor Anthony Lee advised the council the sewer pump for the Harris Street lift station has been repaired and will be reinstalled around the first of August.
After much discussion concerning the marking of city vehicles, the council voted to put the City Seal on all the trucks belonging to the City of Muldraugh so they can be easily recognized as property of the City of Muldraugh.
Before voting on hearing the second reading of Ordinance 349 concerning the 2016-2017 fiscal year budget, Councilman Robert Mattingly told the council he had studied the budget and the employee pay plans since the last attempt to pass the new budget and suggested all city employees get a pay increase of 25 cents per hour. Mattingly made that in form of a motion but the motion failed for a lack of a second. A vote was taken to hear the second reading of the ordinance and failed by a 2 to 3 vote, therefore, the council has not approved a budget for the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
City Clerk Caroline Cline advised the council she has received a notification the audit company, that has in the past done the auditing of the city’s financial records, will no longer be doing city audits. Cline had presented a bid proposal to the council members from Blue & Company and advised the council that 2 of the auditors that had been with the previous company is now working for Blue & Company. After a brief discussion, the council unanimously voted to accept the bid $7,300 from Blue & Company to do the audit of the city’s financial records.
You can hear the entire regular monthly meeting of the Muldraugh City Council in our “On Demand” section.
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