Another Stone

The Main Street Program has requested that the City accept a donation of personal property (trash cans) that are to be placed on Main Street. The Main Street Program is requesting the City accept the trash cans (personal property) and continue to maintain and service the trash cans.
The Council has not identified providing this type of service as a core program or a priority service; it must remain focused and help the organization stay the course. Elected officials must have the courage to say “no” when groups make new demands. These kinds of Council reactions to new demands may mollify constituents making the service request, but such referrals of non-priority items to staff simply divert scarce staff resources and undercut the local government’s ability to perform.
To what extent does the service have to be delivered, or simply be made available, or, instead, be capable of self-service? And we need to address these fundamentals with the customers themselves. For if we are to reduce the cost of local government substantially, this will be achievable only if we can get residents to serve themselves.
The Main Street Program would need to provide a bill of sale to complete the transaction.
Approval of this motion allows the City Manager to accept receipt of personal property from the Main Street Program.