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Mertzon City Council Meeting Nov 13 2023


I voted this week, and when I did I remembered, again, how around 1975 I witnessed Brent Evans get knocked out cold under this big oak at the front door of the Community Center. We were returning from a Boy Scout horseback camp out at the Scout Dam on Spring Creek, and Brent's horse scrubbed him off using one of the branches in this tree. He recovered quickly, thankfully, but it could have gone the other way because we all were foolishly loping our horses in at the end of the camp out. Brent later became an Eagle Scout, but left us too soon.

 

Here is the agenda for the November 13, 2023 Mertzon City Council meeting, with my comments underneath:




Comments:

  1. Agenda item 5. Support Scouting, like the City Council is clearly doing here. Among other things, Scouting's reverence of the flag reinforces the importance of our pledges of allegiance in public settings like city council and school board meetings. See my Note 1 on this page for more on why I think our pledges are essential to public meetings.

  2. Agenda item 6. The City has done well of late qualifying for several grants. All those letters stand for the Texas Water Development Board Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. If they vote , this item should be passed. It is hard to argue against a clean drinking water grant.


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