City officials think about starting a newsletter

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard

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In an effort to improve communications with constituents, city officials said they want to offer an outlet for citizens to provide feedback and let them know what types of services they should, or should not, be offering.

Mayor Royce Davenport said the idea of sending a quarterly newsletter to residents surfaced at a city-sponsored conference at Fall Creek Falls last week, and City Administrator Herb Llewellyn added this week survey-type questions may be distributed to citizens at some point and may be included with those newsletters.

“This will be important,” Llewellyn said. “One of the questions will be, ‘Are there any other services you want the city to provide? Are there services we provide that you think we shouldn’t provide?'”

Llewellyn said officials may even venture so far as to ask citizens how certain services ought to be paid for. “I think it could be really interesting and I would look for us to start putting a survey in every time we do our newsletter. I want to make it as easy for people to interact with the city as they can,” he added.