July 8, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
City, Neighborhoods To Share Information
DECATUR - Local neighborhoods and the Decatur City Council will continue their push to work more closely together through a new initiative announced this week during this week’s Decatur City Council meeting.
City neighborhood organizations will make public presentations to the Decatur City Council during the second council meeting of each month, detailing ongoing programs and positives, needs and issues faced by each neighborhood. The presentations will be coordinated through the Coalition of Neighborhood Organizations, which works with the city’s 23 neighborhood groups and throughout the community to address neighborhood issues.
The City Council in the last two years has made improving and strengthening city neighborhoods one of its top three goals.
“The feeling of this council has been certainly (over) the last 2 or 3 years and certainly with this new group that the neighborhoods are the lifeblood of this community and I don’t think there’s any better way for the council to hear everything together as opposed to a comment here or a comment there,” said Mayor Mike McElroy. “You’ll hear something from a different neighborhood (during the second meeting of each month) - the good things that are happening and the bad things that are happening.”
“We want to hear it all.”
For more information contact Mayor Mike McElroy at 424-2804 or Billy Tyus at 424-2753.