Month: May 2017

Investing in our children is investing in our future.
This is exactly what
Bill Myers and his staff do at the Grandview YMCA.
Today was orientation for Summer Camp and the number of young lives that will be positively impacted this Summer is amazing.
Thank you to all that are doing their part to make sure our community Y is a success. Bart

Intergovernmental Partnerships in Elmore County

Information provided by Elmore County Engineer Richie Beyer:

Elmore County seeks ways to partner with all eight of our municipalities to complete a number of projects that benefit the citizens of Elmore County.

One example of a typical project type where the cities and county collaborate is to resurface and preserve city and county streets through the county’s annual paving contracts.

In this partnership, cities and the county maximize their purchasing power by providing contractors larger quantities of work thus reducing costs such as oversight and mobilization.

Each jurisdiction is paying for the cost of its roads through a reimbursable policy adopted by the county years ago.

This year the Town of Deatsville and Town of Elmore are participating with the County to do several projects.

This is the meeting agenda for the Commission meeting 5-22-17.

If you want to share a thought or have a question on any item please let me know.

Bart

The Millbrook Police Department will hold their annual Cops & Kids Day event today.

Saturday May 13, 2017 at the Village Green Park

We appreciate our first responders for their dedication and service to our community

Bart

Reminder:

County wide cleanup day is this Saturday May 13 2017

Trucks will be at these locations from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

The pick-up sites are for residents to bring amounts of trash larger than the normal residential trash container will accommodate.

Limbs smaller than four feet and no more than six inches in diameter will be accepted but it is not designed to accept trash or clean-up debris from contractors. Items such as batteries, appliances, oils and gases, paints or thinners will not be accepted.

These are the pick-up sites for this Saturday:

CEWSA Redland Facility
Holtville High School
Elmore County Judicial Complex
Emerald Mountain Equestrian Center
Kent – Old Highway Department
Town of Elmore

Any question please let me know.
Bart

Information provided by Elmore County Engineer Richie Beyer:

Microsurfacing is a cost effective pavement preservation technique designed to extend the life of a road at approximately a quarter of the cost of traditional resurfacing.

This is one of a couple projects that Elmore County is performing in concert with work on some Town of Deatsville and Town of Elmore streets.

Packaging this work together by the towns and county allow all three entities to stretch our resources to accomplish as many improved roads as fiscally possible.

Microsurfacing work is scheduled to be performed Thursday in the Deatsville area.

We appreciate Richie and his staff with the Highway Department

Bart

Industry Expands in Elmore County

Today I attended an event at the GKN Aerospace manufacturing facility in Tallassee where they announced and had the ground breaking on a 20,000 Sq. Ft Building expansion.

This expansion is a result the need for additional space due to an increase in production.

GKN employs 800 people at their facility in Tallassee and we appreciate them again choosing Elmore County as the place to invest their dollars.

The Commission also thanks the Elmore County Economic Development Authority and the Elmore County Industrial Development Authority for their work on this project.

This is what it looks like when people work together to improve Elmore County.

County wide cleanup day is this Saturday May 13th

Trucks will be at these locations from 9:00am – 1:00pm

The pick-up sites are for residents to bring amounts of trash larger than the normal residential trash container will accommodate.

Limbs smaller than four feet and no more than six inches in diameter will be accepted but it is not designed to accept trash or clean-up debris from contractors. Items such as batteries, appliances, oils and gases, paints or thinners will not be accepted.

These are the pick-up sites for this Saturday:

CEWSA Redland Facility

Holtville High School

Elmore County Judicial Complex

Emerald Mountain Equestrian Center

Kent – Old Highway Department

Town of Elmore

Any question please let me know.

Bart

This is the meeting agenda for the Commission meeting 5-8-17.

If you want to share a thought or have a question on any item please let me know.

Bart

Today, Saturday May 6, 2017 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. all Elmore County citizens can bring up to 6 paper boxes of personal documents and they will be securely destroyed on-site. The mobile shredding truck will be located in the North parking lot of the Elmore Judicial Complex which is on Hwy 231 across from Tutwiler Prison.

Bart