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Committee approves steps to cut newsletter costs and adopt quarterly mailings
Summary
Councilmembers said they will move toward a lower‑cost city newsletter with a reusable template and quarterly distribution; Mayor Gluss cited previous mailing expense levels and proposed training administrative staff to manage content.
Councilmembers discussed redesigning the city newsletter to reduce printing and mailing expenses and to allow more frequent communications.
Mayor Gluss said he would like the newsletter sent quarterly; he reviewed past mailing practices and costs cited in the meeting, telling members the prior administration's approach led to higher annual expenses and that Master Printers' per‑mailing cost estimates were about $3,800 to $4,000. Jansen said the city will build a template staff can use going forward. "The nice part for the future is that Ms. Jansen is building the city a template that can be used for whomever is in office," Gluss said.
Councilmembers agreed that the administrative assistant and clerk should take on production responsibilities after training, and that elected officials should forward content ideas to Jansen for inclusion. No formal budget appropriation or vote on mailing frequency occurred during the meeting.
