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Three Rivers City Commission members will start their meetings an hour earlier than usual beginning next week.
City manager Joe Bippus said the twice-a-month meetings will now commence at 5 o’clock. Meetings are the first and third Tuesdays of the month. Bippus said one factor in the move was to accommodate city staff, whose workdays end around 4:30. If their presence is needed at a city commission meeting, they currently have to wait until it starts at 6 p.m., then the additional time it takes to get to their matter on the agenda.
Commission members might revisit the start time following summer months, but all seven members were OK with trying the new, earlier start, Bippus said.
I don’t see any mention as to whether this time change is to help the citizenry (it’s not). Maybe it’s to get fewer people complaining about the sorry state of the city. But then again the city commission is only there for their own convenience.