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Mayor's Office Indiana mayor's are granted their authority by Indiana Code 36-4-5. Indiana mayors are elected by popular vote every four years and their duties are defined by Indiana Code and include: executing and supervising the enforcement of municipal ordinances and Indiana Code, regularly communicating with and making recommendations to the City Council, performing executive and administrative duties as prescribed by law and signing bonds, deeds and written contracts on behalf of the city. Indiana Code 36-9-6 prescribes that the mayor chairs the city works board (the Board of Public Works and Safety, in Jeffersonville) and Indiana Code 36-9-23 sets the mayor as the chair of the Sanitary Sewer Board. Mayor's Staff Mindy Christian, Emergency Management Coordinator Rick Lovan, Growth Coordinator Candy Stewart, Administrative Assistant Larry Thomas, Communications Director Dana Young, Director of Community Development Upcoming Canal Meetings The City of Jeffersonville will host public forums to discuss progress on the downtown canal at 6:30 p.m. in Room 101, City Hall, 500 Quartermaster Court, on the following dates:
Members of the public with questions and comments about the canal can contact Construction Solutions via e-mail. Please note that the above dates and times are tentative, as of their posting on July 27, 2010. It is the city's intention to provide as much advance notice as possible regarding canal-related meetings. Wrestling Cultural Exchange
Jeffersonville High School wrestling coach Danny Struck organized the Japanese wrestlers' visits to Jeffersonville through a cultural exchange program offered by the Indiana State Wrestling Association. This is the third group of Japanese wrestlers to visit Jeffersonville in recent years. The city has also hosted youths from Poland and Turkey. Wrestlers from Jeffersonville will visit Gumna in 2011. Clark County Museum Presentation
Mayor Tom Galligan turned over the photos to Clark County Historian Jeanne Burke and Clark County Museum board member Roger Fisher on Thursday, June 10, 2010. Burke said the museum would display its copies for the first time at JEFF Fest on Saturday, June 12 in Preservation Park. Board of Public Works and Safety The Jeffersonville Board of Public Works and Safety meets at 9:30 a.m. each Wednesday in the Mayor's Conference Room at City Hall, 500 Quartermaster Ct. The board has relative broad responsibilities, ranging from the consideration of handicapped and resident-only parking spaces on city streets to the awarding of bids for some public works projects. The board's membership includes Mayor Tom Galligan (chairman), Councilwoman Barbara Wilson and Growth Coordinator Rick Lovan. The board has discontinued granting permits for door-to-door sales and city ordinance prohibits approvals of charity road blocks other than those conducted by the Jeffersonville Fire Department for the WHAS Crusade for Children. Mayor Tom Galligan
Tom Galligan served as Jeffersonville's mayor from 1996 to 2003, then returned to City Hall for his third four-year term on January 1, 2008. During Galligan's first two terms, Jeffersonville was transformed in ways once thought impossible. During those years, downtown Jeffersonville experienced a rebirth, the city constructed a new aquatic center and Little League fields, an old rail yard became North Shore Drive, Jeffersonville's riverfront became home to RiverStage and the Terraced Lawn (part of the Ohio River Greenway) and a few blocks west, Restaurant Row was born. Perhaps the city's biggest deal during those eight years was laying the groundwork for today's City Hall, by purchasing the former U.S. Army Quartermaster Depot on Tenth Street and working with Sun Properties to renovate what was once an eyesore into a bustling office and restaurant complex with City Hall as it's centerpiece. Galligan's focus today is to make Jeffersonville a destination for a day, a week or a lifetime. First and foremost is compliance with the Clean Water Act, following the August 2009 signing of a consent decree between the Sanitary Sewer Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice and Indiana Department of Environmental Management to reduce combined sewer overflows to the Ohio River and Cane Run. EPA is requiring that the city spend approximately $120 million to upgrade its wastewater collection and treatment systems through 2025. The work on CSOs is just a fraction of the administration's focus. Downtown redevelopment continues with a planned hotel and convention center, the conversion of the Big Four Bridge into a pedestrian and bicycle crossing between the Ohio River Greenway and Louisville's Waterfront Park, the creation of a canal and canal district (a drainage project that will help address CSOs that will be used as an economic development tool) are key elements of the administration's work. Four road projects -- involving Hamburg Pike, Main Street, Tenth Street and Veterans Parkway -- are also in the hopper. And one of the most important elements of the administration's plans -- which several City Council members are pressing for, as well -- is the creation of a largest public park in the city's history. At 8:10 a.m. each Friday, Galligan visits The Rocky Knight Show on KOOL 1570-AM.
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Nine
wrestlers -- ages 13 to 15 -- and three chaperons from Gunma, Japan
visited City Hall with their hosts from the Team Jeff Wrestling Club
on Tuesday, July 27, 2010.
The
City of Jeffersonville and A Taste of Jeffersonville has presented
the Clark County Museum with copies of 17 historic photos that were
salvaged from the former Frank's Steakhouse, prior to the building's
demolition. |
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