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Council to offer parks and cemetery position to Jordan Stewart; meter-reader job to be advertised
Summary
Meadow officials said they will offer Jordan Stewart the combined parks and cemetery position and will advertise a separate meter-reading/streets role after Stewart declines meter reading duties.
The mayor said the town will offer the combined parks and cemetery position to Jordan Stewart and that Stewart will stop reading water meters, creating a separate vacancy the council plans to advertise.
The mayor told the council he and staff “went through the applications, talked with Jim about it” and that, if the council supported the decision, he would “offer that position to Jordan Stewart.” He said Stewart would take on park and cemetery oversight and “wants he does wanna drop the meter reading.”
Council members discussed whether the meter-reading duties should remain bundled with mowing and street plowing. The mayor said the town will advertise the meter-reader/streets position, close applications a day or two before next month’s meeting and “try and have a plan in place when we come back next month.” Stewart agreed to help train a replacement and to compare meter readings “next week.”
The mayor also said the town will leave blue-stake (utility-locating) responsibilities with Andrew, who has been performing that work, and will remove the blue-stake duty from the memorandum listing Jordan’s tasks.
On cemetery operations, the council discussed grave-digging work. The mayor said Andrew has volunteered to dig graves and that the town had eight openings last year; one interment from Tooele is expected tomorrow. The mayor noted Andrew is bonded and insured, which means “if something happens, the town’s not liable,” and said staff will contact families to move headstones when necessary.
The council did not record a formal roll-call vote on the personnel moves in the transcript; multiple members voiced agreement and the mayor said, “K. We will move that forward.”
Planning and administration staff will post the meter-reader/streets vacancy at the post office and on the town’s social media page as described by the mayor.
Ending: The council directed staff to proceed with the offer to Stewart and to advertise the meter-reader/streets position; the council expects to return next month with applicants and a staffing plan.
