Been swamped at work for the past couple of weeks so posting has been very slow.  Going back and forth between Blacksburg burns up a lot of time and I caught a nasty cold in the process but I am thankful that the business is still relatively busy.

There is a fair amount of stuff going on this coming week.  There is a Council meeting on Monday and I believe the final budget vote is then.  On Tuesday there is a meeting of the Ad-hoc Fire and Rescue meeting that is going to sort through some of the issues with the new departmental structure, etc.  I’m also reasonably sure there is a finance meeting on Wed and since Smith is no longer on the Council, I’ll have to go to that too!

I’m trying to keep City business during the day to a minimum but there is also a meeting with the state economic dev. department one day at lunch.  Plenty to do!

Also have to start weeding the garden, training the peas and cucumbers – if the cucs are still alive.  They looked as though they had drowned or something when I looked on Thursday.  Might be replanting.

I can’t take many more rainy days.  The grass in the back yard looks like a hay field.  I haven’t posted very much lately but I’ve been very busy with work the last week or so.  Busy is good so I’ll take it. 

On the City side, Battle street is all but done and it looks great.  The budget, with a final vote at the next meeting, is all but done and we had pretty good Town Hall meeting at Haydon last night.  Seems like we might have had at least one person launch their bid for a Council seat at that meeting.  The “Fire & Rescue committee” will be meeting next week to take a look at things there.

With that, I’m off to work again.  I’ll post more soon about how the appointment process and committee meetings are going.