Taking responsibility or micro-managing? Alexandria City Council has lively debate over budget

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What one council member described as taking responsibility for the budget was termed “micro-managing” by other members in a lively discussion that closed Monday night’s Alexandria City Council meeting.

The council voted 4-1 to reject Ward 1 council member Virgil Batesole’s motion to establish ground rules for the city’s budget committee.

See Wednesday's Echo Press for the full story and a summary of other council action on these topics – a “send off” event for local National Guard soldiers; an off-sale liquor license to Coborn’s, doing business as Cash Wise Liquor; an on-sale liquor license to Main Street Brewery; outdoor events at the new Bug-A-Boo Bay; tax increment financing for a 24-unit rental townhome project; an application for a $10,000 Arts Legacy Grant to build an outdoor sculpture in Big Ole Central Park; a “Harvest Duathlon” running and biking event; bids for a truck, plow and lawnmower for the park department; a joint powers agreement between the police department and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension; the purchase a Crown Victoria police squad car; an engineering agreement for a mechanical stormwater treatment system on north Lake Victoria and more.

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