UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM) – It is “meeting Monday” for the Zeeland City Council and for the Board of the Macatawa Area Express Authority.
Among the items on the agenda for Zeeland’s elected leaders is a request to approve a “patron code of conduct” for the Howard Miller Library that interim director Leann Parker said in a memo would give the staff “direction on how to handle behavior that violates” the code, with the “desire to be fair and reasonable in our disciplinary plan of action, based on age and offense.” After acts of vandalism were reported at Huizenga Park’s “Timber Town” replacement project and other municipal venues, Cemetery Supervisor Scott Nienhuis is recommending to council a nearly seven thousand-dollar contract with Town and Country Technologies to install security cameras at the Huizenga Park playground, and to increase the budget for the Timber Town project by 15 grand to around 576 thousand dollars.
Meanwhile, the issue of addressing the vacant Executive Director’s position is apparently not on the agenda for this afternoon’s Macatawa Area Express Transportation Authority Board meeting. It is the first such monthly session since the resignation of Linda LeFebre, earlier in April, in the wake of separate internal and criminal investigations into alleged embezzlement within MAX Transit. Beth Higgs and Derek Broadbent have been handling operational leadership duties since LeFebre was placed on paid leave in March. There has been no word thus far on any results of the embezzlement investigations or on the process for naming a new MAX Transit Executive Director.
The MAX Board meeting is at 3:30 PM in the Padnos Transportation Center, while the Zeeland City Council holds a work-study session an hour before its biweekly 7 PM meeting at Zeeland City Hall. Links to the agenda and packets for these meetings are here for Zeeland and here for MAX.
