Edison Council changes business hours/reviews PD priorities

By Alberta Stojkovic –

At the Edi­son Coun­cil meet­ing on March 26, Edi­son Vil­lage Fis­cal Offi­cer, Roseanne Denty requested the change in busi­ness office hours to be effec­tive Mon­day, April 2, 2012. She requested to work a four day work week instead of five days as she is presently work­ing. Denty said that she will still be work­ing 25 hours per week. The coun­cil unan­i­mously agreed to accept the change in hours.

The new busi­ness hours at the Edi­son Vil­lage Build­ing for Roseanne Denty effec­tive Mon­day, April 2 will be Mon­day 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and the sec­ond and fourth Mon­day 1–7 p.m., Tues­day, Wed. and Thurs­day: 9 a.m. — 3:30 p.m. Denty will be out of the office on Fri­day un less there is busi­ness to be done or an appoint­ment made for Fri­day. She can be con­tacted by the coun­cil by email and cell phone on Fri­day as well.

Denty said two con­cerns led her to make this change. One was the cost of gas that is mak­ing it expen­sive to make extra trips to Edi­son. Another con­sid­er­a­tion is that she has very lit­tle busi­ness on Fri­days due to the county offices being closed. Because of this it will be a sav­ings for both her and the vil­lage to have the busi­ness office be open four days a week.
Coun­cil mem­ber, Floyd Wogan said that the March 18 meet­ing with Chief Edwards on pol­icy and work to be done by the police depart­ment went well. Under­cover and inter­net work has been dis­con­tin­ued and the road hours and police work in the vil­lage for res­i­dents will be accom­plished. There will be an under­stand­ing with offi­cers that their job is to enforce laws in the vil­lage. The inter­net work is com­mend­able, but it will be dis­con­tin­ued for the time being so that the police work in the vil­lage can be achieved.

Con­cern had been expressed by coun­cil mem­bers for the past few months that police offi­cers were not spend­ing their time being present to enforce the laws and also being a pres­ence in the vil­lage. Wogan said that he has been assured by Chief Edwards that the focus of the police dept. would be on enforc­ing the laws and the wel­fare of the res­i­dents in Edi­son.
In March Police Dept. requests for pur­chase orders were accepted by the coun­cil in the amount of $150 for repair of the cruiser cam­era mod­ule, $70 for cruiser radar cal­i­bra­tion, $96.29 for com­puter antivirus and $354 for brakes.

In other March busi­ness, the coun­cil approved Pur­chase Orders for the street depart­ment of $70.00 for pes­ti­cide license for street work­ers and $350.00 was approved to repair bro­ken cast­ing on storm sewer rooter.

Street Com­mis­sioner Jerry Reeder is check­ing on the cost of build­ings for the street depart­ment. He is not sure of the size yet, but is con­sid­er­ing 24 feet by 40 feet in size for the util­ity building.

The coun­cil approved the amount pre­pared by the fis­cal offi­cer for appro­pri­a­tions. The amount will pro­vide oper­a­tions for the fis­cal year. Wages for Chief Edwards, street work­ers and fis­cal offi­cer in the amount of $1,502.21 were approved to be paid for the month. Other bills total­ing $15,152.72 were also approved to be paid. The largest amount was for the pay­ment of cruiser for $7,850.26.

The next meet­ing of the Edi­son Vil­lage Coun­cil will be Mon. Apr. 9 at 7 p.m.

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