Warrior Council hears residents' complaints

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June 5, 2012

Warrior Council hears residents' complaints

By Robert Carter North Jefferson News The North Jefferson News Tue Jun 05, 2012, 11:49 AM CDT

A pair of complaints from residents became the focus of an otherwise routine meeting for the Warrior City Council on Monday night.

The council heard a complaint from an unidentified resident about abandoned houses in the southern part of the city, adjacent to Dewey Barber Chevrolet. Vegetation has grown up around the houses along U.S. 31 and the properties have become an eyesore, the resident said.

T.J. Jackson also asked the council to consider putting an additional street light and a gate on 10th Street, which dead-ends at a cemetery. Jackson said the area had attracted trespassers at night, who couldn’t be seen because an existing light was obscured by a tree.

It’s an area which Police Chief Ray Horn and his predecessors have fought to clean up over the years.

“This area was widely known as a problem in the past, but [former Jefferson County Sheriff] Mel Bailey worked with us to clean it up 16 to 18 years ago,” Horn said. “It’s a lot better now than it was then.”

Horn agreed with Jackson that a gate and new street light would help keep troublemakers out of the secluded cemetery at night.

In other business, the council:

• Voted to install speed breakers on Poplar Street and on Knopf Drive, after complaints from residents about speeding on those streets;

• Voted to observe the 2012-13 sales tax holiday for severe weather preparedness;

• Renewed a contract with RDS for collection of sales and use taxes and business license fees;

• Accepted plaques as thanks from the softball teams at North Jefferson Middle School and Mortimer Jordan High. North Jefferson used the Warrior City Park field as its home for seven years before taking over the field at the old Jordan campus in Morris, while Jordan used the field as a practice field early this season before the field at their new school was ready for play.

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