Mayor addresses ‘sanctuary city’ controversy

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

On Aug. 12, the Mountain Home City Council met for their regularly scheduled meeting.

After Mayor Rich Sykes established a quorum, he opened the public hearing for the Fiscal year 2020 budget, but no one wished to speak.

Doug Meyer, who sits on the board of the Western Elmore County Recreation District, approached the Council asking for a partnership with city to get one pool built rather than two separate pools (a new city pool and the WECRD’s indoor pool). Meyer asked for a meeting between the WECRD Board of Directors and the City Council to discuss it further. Meyer said, “The WECRD is pressing forward” and he believes they could do a lot for the city and the county. Councilman Daniel Brennan asked Meyer what a partnership between the two entities would look like. Meyer replied the partnership would be the city and recreation district working together to build, operate and maintain the pools.

Councilman Matt Bundy asked the council to remember back to a year ago when Railroad Park was having trouble. At that point the city took over the park and Councilman Bundy said Parks and Rec has been doing a great job maintaining the park and it was a great addition to the park system.

Mayor Sykes wanted to address the discussion and misinterpretation of his speech made at the ECHO Cinco De Mayo event. He began by saying “Illegals, undocumented or which ever you choose to call them, although I believe this issue is more complicated than most people seem too believe. For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper's online edition.

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    Nice teaser on the Mayor's comments......now this will force people to purchase a paper this week.....I see how you operate.

    -- Posted by ??ReallyPeople on Wed, Aug 21, 2019, at 12:55 PM
    Response by Brenda Fincher, Publisher, Mountain Home News:
    You are very correct "??Really People" this was a teaser. I am a small business that sells newspapers by either subscribers or single sell copies in any of our dealer vendors in Mountain Home and Glenns Ferry. The purpose of my website it to let a reader like you that are not a paid subscriber know what is available in this week’s edition and to highlight our online advertisers. It always has been a small reflection of what is in the paper weekly. Being a small business and only having two products to sell being the paper and the advertising inside it is my goal as a business to sell my papers. News gathering and event coverage is not free. The amount of resources, wages and equipment it requires to gather and produce the information in the paper each week requires me to not give away the stories. I do hope you understand that the news reporting and stories are part of my paid product. I would love to have you as a subscriber where your paper comes with your mail weekly and if you are an Elmore County resident that is $39.00 a year plus sales tax. If you prefer to read the news online then I have Electronic Editions available for $35.00 a year plus sales tax. Again I hope you understand and continue to check out the teasers to see you would like to purchase the Mountain Home News. My purpose in not to force you to purchase my product, but more of a way of using my website as an ad to sell my papers. I thank you in advance for supporting small business and shopping local. If you would like to stop by the office and introduce yourself I would be happy to comp you a copy of the paper this week. It has lots of information on meetings, photos and upcoming events. Thank you and have a great day ~ Brenda
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    Mea Culpa Brenda, I just always assumed this site was a full-service news service like others I have seen and follow on-line. I didn't realize you had an Electronic Edition, thanks for that insight. No need to comp me a paper, I'll find one to get the rest of the story. Keep up your outstanding work of covering the comings and goings and issues pertinent to Elmore County and the City of Mountain Home.

    -- Posted by ??ReallyPeople on Thu, Aug 22, 2019, at 8:02 AM
    Response by Brenda Fincher, Publisher, Mountain Home News:
    Thank you very much. My staff and myself appreciate the kind words. You have a great weekend. B
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