Mertzon City Council Meeting March 18 2024
- G. Noelke
- Mar 16, 2024
- 2 min read
The irrigation gate near the dam at Harkey's Crossing on Spring Creek is being rebuilt. My ancestors, the Lackey's, were among those who initially dug this irrigation ditch that still feeds the farms from this point through Sherwood.
Here is the agenda for the March 18, 2024 City Council meeting, with my agenda analysis and meeting analysis below.
Agenda analysis:
Time. The meeting is at 6:30 and conflicts with the ICISD board meeting that starts at 6:00 on the same day.
Digger Derrick. The jury is still out on whether this purchase has a gremlin that just won't go away. I've avoided criticizing whether the ongoing expense of this purchase is necessary because I'm just enough of a tool nut to know that the biggest part of any municipality's maintenance and operations department is going to be to have the right tools around. For myself, though, I avoid mechanized augers and post hole diggers at all cost. The closest near death experience I ever had as a child on the ranch was when the auger on the back of the tractor swung wide coming out of the hole and caught the jeans on the back side of my knee, narrowly missing those tendons behind the knee. Amazingly, I was left with only a small scratch on the back of my knee. The cowboy running the tractor, Elton Howard, nearly fainted on the spot. When we got back to Mertzon that day my father had me quickly throw away the jeans (there was a gaping hole behind my knee) before my mother saw them and, well, you know. There were also all those post hole diggers and crowbars I used when we built fence during the summers that left an impression on me. So, one of my life goals as an adult has been to at most keep only 1 shovel and 1 gardening trowel around as my sole digging tools, while avoiding the purchasing of augers, post hole diggers and crowbars. I've generally been successful at this goal, even with my current wildlife management duties on the ranch. So, more power to the City for their efforts at hole digging efficiency, but it might be in the long run that they learn that owning less is more.
Meeting Analysis: Pending
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