Blythewood – Town Council and the Mayor’s Park Committee met separately last week to look at ways to cut operating and maintenance costs for the park and Manor. For its part, Council has already raised rental fees for the Manor and is looking to initiate a minimum-use fee of about $35 per hour to cover […]
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As Gomer Pyle Used to Say . . .
February 27, 2014 By
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! All of a sudden, after two years in office, with all his fellow Council members now turned out or resigned, Mayor J. Michael Ross is realizing something is amiss with the Town’s finances. What? All is not well? After we have been told for two years by our Mayor and Council how […]
Manor Gets New Director
February 20, 2014 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Town Council voted unanimously on Monday night to hire Booth Chilcutt as the new Events and Conference Center Director for The Doko Manner, replacing Martha Jones who recently resigned the position. Chilcutt, who had served as Jones’ assistant, comes to the position with an enviable set of credentials. Prior to retiring to Blythewood […]
Council Confronts Manor Morass
February 20, 2014 By
Term Limits Get Green Light BLYTHEWOOD – With only three of its four members present, Town Council amended its 2014 budget on Monday evening to reflect more accurately the operational losses it has incurred in the operation of Doko Manor this past year. The 2014 budget that was set last July projected a $20,000 loss […]
Manor Mars Town Budget
February 13, 2014 By
BLYTHEWOOD – During an intense five-hour workshop last Friday, Blythewood Town Council discussed ways to ‘stop the bleeding’ of the Doko Manor, which, all worried aloud, could possibly become too expensive to operate in the not too distant future. A question that popped up again and again was “How long can the Town continue to […]
Search for Town Administrator Begins
February 13, 2014 By
BLYTHEWOOD –Town Council announced at its workshop last Friday the preliminary criteria for the desirable candidate for a permanent Town Administrator, and it named a committee of four Blythewood residents to make recommendations for the post. After a fair amount of wrangling over age, experience, relocation and education, Council settled mainly on criteria suggested by […]
Council to Review Budget at Work Session
February 6, 2014 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Town Council will hold a work session Friday, Feb. 7, from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., at the Manor. The purpose of the session, according to Mayor J. Michael Ross, is to discuss a wide variety of difficult issues Council is facing, but primarily to look at revising the budget to better […]
‘Ad’ for Appointments Fails to Clear Confusion
January 2, 2014 By
BLYTHEWOOD – After considerable controversy during the last two years including a phantom ‘ad’ brought up at the Nov. 25 Town Council meeting regarding how applicants are recruited for the Town’s boards and commissions, the Town Hall has placed another ad in the classified section of the Dec. 19 issue of another media outlet to […]
After Repeated Violations, Council Aims to Change the Law
December 19, 2013 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Town Council unanimously adopted an ordinance Monday night to amend provisions of the Town’s Code of Laws pertaining to how applicants are recruited for the Town’s boards and commissions. The issue arose last month when Mayor J. Michael Ross brought forward the nomination of three applicants for appointment to the Board of Architectural […]
Council Gives Thumbs Up to Perry Resignation
December 12, 2013 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Following a half-hour executive session in a special called Town Council meeting on Monday night, the full Town Council voted unanimously and by roll call to “accept John Perry’s resignation as Blythewood Town Administrator . . . and approve the severance agreement and authorize the Mayor to execute the [severance] agreement with the […]
