This month the regular council meeting was moved from the second Monday of the month to the third.
The move this time came at the request of longtime Councilmember Mavis Toler who said that by moving it to the same deadline date as the budget levy it would enable the council to have one monthly meeting instead of two.
"On the third Tuesday, we have to lay the levy," Toler said. "Why not move the meeting to that Tuesday and do the levy one half an hour to 15 minutes before the council meeting?”
Councilman Tim Stacy said he approved of the idea as he would be out of town during the second week of April and otherwise would have to miss the regular meeting.
Usually, the council meets every second Monday of the month at 6 p.m.
For a few years, the council moved the meetings to 6:30 p.m. to accommodate one former council member and the council decided to move the meetings back to the original time as members were arriving early and having to wait for no reason.
Council approved changing the meeting to April 20 with the budget meeting at 5:15 p.m. followed by the April regular council meeting set for 6 p.m.
In other Man Council news:
Several major projects will be coming to Man soon.
Council approved the annual Man Yard Sale for April 30-May 1 and August 27-28.
"We thought about having it a month earlier, but we have had such a rough winter and many people just were not prepared or ready," Toler said.
The Town Fair will be held on July 2-4 with the annual fireworks show on July 4, Mayor Jim Blevins said.
Man Town Attorney Bernard Spaulding said the town had no fixed rate set for copies of legal documents from Freedom of Information Act requests and recommended charging 50 cents per page per copy along with a reimbursement for a town employee's hourly rate and postage costs.
Spaulding also asked for an ordinance limiting time made for presentations and community comments.
"In the past, we have given people five minutes," Spaulding said. "However, you have some people who say the same thing over and over and you have other people who may have a complicated matter like insurance or a bond matter that might require more than five minutes."
Spaulding said he recommended giving the mayor leeway for limiting comments to avoid repetition. Spaulding also said he could not in good faith give legal advice to the general public as he was the town's attorney and that some request were tantamount to violating attorney client privilege.
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