Sugar City, Idaho: The Dayley Report

  If you keep your eyes peeled as you drive around Madison County, you will regularly notice signs posted on various properties. The posts have info like the notice in the graphic above, and often include a map of the properties in question. These public notices are also required to be published in the local newspapers. Once the notices have gone up, the Planning and Zoning Commission members, city council members, and the mayor are limited in their ability to converse with the public about the requested changes to the properties. This restriction is intended to keep the hearing process as fair and objective as possible. For things such as expanding a city's impact area or annexing property into the city limits, the P&Z members hold a hearing and then make their recommendation to the city council. Then at a city council meeting, the council and mayor have a chance to discuss and debate the proposal and the commission's recommendation. Then, of course, the council votes. For...

Snow removal information Sugar-Salem High School seniors Landon Bingham and Kyle Brunson recently interviewed Sugar City's Public Works Director Arlynn Jacobson regarding snow removal.   Arlynn shared some great information regarding the process of snow plowing in Sugar City. We talked about costs, budgets, equipment, and even those troublesome berms!   Below is the audio of the interview. It runs about 14 minutes. Sort of the first podcast for the Dayley Report. If I do it again, I might get better at it.   If you have any suggestions for future podcast interviews, let me know.