Posts Tagged ‘columbia city council’
Columbia preps for new development
While Columbia officials have spent the past several years creating a vision for the city in the coming decades, the message last Tuesday night was clear: the future is now.…
Read MoreSolar flare in Columbia
Echoing an Aug. 4 meeting, discussion of a proposed solar project once again lasted nearly an hour on the top floor of Columbia City Hall Monday night. Members of Christ…
Read MoreColumbia city services on the move
A vote of unanimous approval for what will be a nearly $15.5 million project passed with relatively little discussion compared to different agenda item during the Columbia City Council meeting…
Read MoreColumbia awards façade grants
After a busy first half of 2025, June has been relatively calm for Columbia aldermen. Apart from items on the consent agenda, Columbia City Council only had two other items…
Read MoreNiemietz cares about Columbia
A fixture in Columbia city government for nearly 30 years is retiring from local office next week, closing out her aldermanic career having placed much of her focus on building…
Read MoreColumbia seeing red
The City of Columbia budget for Fiscal Year 2026 is full of red numbers but it’s not as bad as it seems, city officials say. Aldermen approved the budget following…
Read MoreColumbia springs into work
The City of Columbia is taking advantage of the recent warmer weather by getting several impactful projects moving toward completion with several more planned for later this year. Excavation work…
Read MoreColumbia OKs comp plan
After a few false starts and over three years, the City of Columbia has adopted its latest comprehensive plan to guide the growing city through the next couple of decades.…
Read MoreCandidates file for April election
With local elections coming in April, Monday was the deadline for candidates to submit their filings. There appear to be only a few contested races throughout the county. In Waterloo,…
Read MoreColumbia receives clean audit
The City of Columbia is heading in the right direction financially, according to Jim Schmersahl of accounting firm Schmersahl Treloar & Co. Schmersahl provided an audit report during Monday’s Columbia…
Read MoreImprovements in Columbia
The main topic of last Monday’s Columbia City Council was improvement. The improvement that will impact Columbians the most in the near future is the Carl Street Bridge replacement project.…
Read MoreColumbia wonders about water
Due to a July 16 storm which caused parts of Columbia to be under three feet of water, much of last week’s Columbia City Council meeting focused on how to…
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