Residents invited to town meeting

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By Pam Cottrel 7:04 PM Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Dayton Art Institute recently had a display of Norman Rockwell paintings, and I truly regretted that I did not get there to see these masterpieces in person. Rockwell’s painting fascinate and inspire me.

As I sat down to write this column I had a particular Rockwell painting in mind. Remember the Four Freedoms — Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want, Freedom of Worship and Freedom of Speech?

The painting on my mind is titled “Freedom of Speech.”

It depicts a man respectfully standing up to speak at a town meeting. I’m so proud that we live in a country where that scene is repeated over and over.

Public meetings are important to us, whether it’s the president’s State of the Union, our governor’s State of the State or a simple town meeting down the street from our homes.

Tonight the annual town meeting is scheduled in New Carlisle. It will be held at the cabin in lovely Smith Park.

The regular council meeting has been moved up to 6:30 p.m. so that necessary business will be completed before the town meeting begins at 7 p.m.

The entire city is invited. As always it is a good time for interested New Carlisle residents to see what is going on in the second largest city in Clark County.

All the City Council members and city administrators will be in attendance.

With three new council members, this meeting will be the perfect opportunity for New Carlisle residents to match those new names with faces, just in case they haven’t personally met everyone already.

City Manager Kim Jones has arranged for all city department heads to be there to present their annual reports.

“Basically it is a review of what we did last year and what we are planning for this year,” said Jones.

“Nobody talks too long.”

Jones expects funding of street repairs and the new bus service that will start in April will be discussed.

Some time will be allowed for the public to ask questions or make comments.

“We’d love to have people attend. It’s a great opportunity to meet the people running the city,” said Jones, who hopes residents will take the opportunity to ask questions.

Hmmm. Maybe I didn’t need to go to the art museum to see that painting after all.

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