an update

Alright, October 8th was way too long ago.
I visited new (and old) city hall on Friday with our State Representative Marko Liias. It was delightful! Old city hall was starting to show it's faded ages, revealing the dingy aspects that I have overlooked for a few years. Driving into new city hall's parking lot... It's a lovely building. It was great to get a big hug from Shirley, Exec Assistant who worked for the city when they first moved into old city hall. She was teary eyed and happy. I am glad we were able to finally get that building site selected and built. It was a painful process, but the results are awesome.

The council chambers have quite a ways to go to be finished, but look great. I was really pleased with the size-- I know our current chambers are inordinately huge, but still wanted a good size for the new room that would fit a decent sized audience when necessary. I think we have that.

Other highlights-- the city engineers had this hole of an office in the middle of old city hall, and now they have windows and nice fresh looking cubicles. There is room to grow upstairs, which is much better than the narrow hallways built out of cubicle walls in the old one. The server room is awesome! I can't wait for public wifi at city hall (I hear it'll take a couple months, but that's okay).

It was wonderful to see the excitement of staff and to see something our city can be proud of.