Mayor addresses ‘sanctuary city’ controversy
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.