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Alderman asks council to consider monthly stipend for volunteer-run skating program; legal counsel flags liability limits
Summary
Alderman Byron Wilridge asked the board to consider a monthly stipend to support a volunteer-run skating program that provided food and supervision for children. Council members and city counsel discussed whether the event is a city function and the related liability, but no formal appropriation was made.
Alderman Byron Wilridge urged the council to consider a monthly stipend to support a volunteer-run skating program that has been drawing large numbers of children to city property.
Wilridge described high attendance and the program’s efforts to feed participants and proposed a monthly stipend — suggesting “1,500, 2,000 a month” as a ballpark figure — to pay for food and personnel to supervise the events.…
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