Aldermen vote to move meetings to Tuesdays
Members of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted on first reading Monday to change the times of their regular session.
If given final approval, meeting times would occur on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month instead of the first and third Mondays. Aldermen traditionally meet for their regular session at 7 p.m. and regularly request holding committee meetings either before or after the regular session.
According to Mayor Royce Davenport, city officials have been meeting on the first and third Mondays of each month for decades. However, Davenport said meeting on Tuesdays will give aldermen time to review materials that are typically distributed to them from city hall on Fridays.
Additionally, Davenport said many times federal holidays interfere with Monday sessions, an alderman had a conflict with the Monday scheduling as well and that many other communities he knows of do not meet on Mondays. The request to change the meeting times would need to be approved again before it would be put into effect.