{"id":3869,"date":"2020-01-29T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellemeade-ky.gov\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2020-01-29T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:12:37","slug":"mayors-message-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellemeade-ky.gov\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"Mayor’s Message: Introduction…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On January 27th a special meeting was held to appoint a new Mayor for the City of Bellemeade.\u00a0 I presented myself as a candidate and was unanimously selected to fill the role for the remainder of 2020.\u00a0 Some were in attendance and heard an overview of my vision for the next year.\u00a0 For those who didn’t, I wanted to introduce myself and explain a little about my goals.\u00a0

My name is Andrew Miller.\u00a0 I have been a Commissioner for the City for 3 years now.\u00a0 During that time I have been responsible for Public Works, which is mostly trash pickup, road and road sign maintenance and street lights.\u00a0 I have lived in Bellemeade since 2014.\u00a0 I have 4 young children (ages 8 to 9 months) and my wife is a neonatology and perinatal medicine fellow at the University of Louisville.\u00a0 I work just a short distance away in Lyndon as a Software Engineer for a local business where I have been for almost 20 years.

Bellemeade is classified as a home rule city.\u00a0 What this means is that we maintain a local municipal government with full powers to enact ordinances, tax and enforce.\u00a0 This also means that we have some rules we have to follow, mostly ones set by Kentucky Revised Statutes but also the US Constitution and Louisville Metro.\u00a0 John spent the first year of his tenure as Mayor working hard to make sure the city was correctly following these rules.\u00a0 We passed multiple new ordinances setting out our meeting times and locations, creating our officer positions and establishing executive authority for our Commissioners.\u00a0 Last month the city passed its first codified book of ordinances, which we will be publishing on our website in the coming weeks.\u00a0 That effort started under John’s leadership.

My goal for the next year is to take this to the next step.\u00a0 Not only do we need to formalize and improve our city ordinances, but we also need to formalize our city processes.\u00a0 We need to have clear and accessible avenues of communication.\u00a0 The first step in this was reworking our website<\/a>\u00a0and creating commissioner email address at our city domain.\u00a0 We need to have clearly defined roles, and we need to have structure for our meetings and how they are conducted. I want citizens to feel comfortable coming to Commission meetings and expressing their opinions, and I also want being a Commissioner to be something people WANT to do, not something people are talked into doing.

This leads my to my last point: we need your participation.\u00a0 <\/strong>We are now one Commissioner short of a full Commission.\u00a0 We have 30 days to appoint and swear in a new Commissioner.\u00a0 We intend to do this at our next regular city meeting on February 10th 2020 at the NE Regional Library.\u00a0 I will be sending out more information about this soon.\u00a0 If you are interested, please reach out to me at AndrewMiller@bellemeade-ky.gov<\/a> or Mayor@bellemeade-ky.gov<\/a> (or text\/phone at 502-417-0831).\u00a0 Being part of the commission is a good opportunity to learn about local government and be involved in your community, but it is also a good experience builder and a chance to get to know people in the city and learn how Metro and State Government work.

Thank you and please do not hesitate to contact me with questions.
Andrew Miller <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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