Jasper will print 2014 calendars
Jasper — On Friday, Jasper Mayor Terry Seitz announced that there will be a printed City Calendar for 2014.
During the Jasper Board of Public Works and Safety meeting on Tuesday, Mayor Seitz announced the city would not be printing a 2014 City Calendar.
“When I made the decision to forego the traditional printed calendar based on increasing costs and the availability of the calendars on the Jasper website, we expected it would initiate comments from the public”, said Seitz. “Over the course of the last week, we have received several requests at City Hall and some through members of our Common Council for a printed version of the 2014 calendar. We have chosen to amend our course of action and will print a smaller quantity and have them available for pick-up at various City offices next month.”
The calendar will be distributed during business hours at the front desk of Jasper City Hall, the Jasper Municipal Utilities office and drive through,the Arnold F. Habig Community Center and 24-hours a day in the lobby of the Jasper Police Department. A public notice will be made when the calendars become available, likely sometime in mid-December. An electronic version of the calendar will be posted on the City’s website for printout at www.jasperindiana.gov. Additionally, the November utility bills will include the 2014 recycling calendar.
“I have said many times the citizens of Jasper are engaged in activities of their City”, remarked Seitz, “so we’ll be employing a multifaceted delivery of City information in the new year.”
I do not understand the sense of priorities in this city. People call their elected officials when they want to stop printing a calendar, yet when the city spends hundreds of thousands of dollars of your taxes defending a power plant most in the city do not want, there is hardly a word.