The City of Marietta recognized a special group of employees in front of City Hall Friday morning to mark May 22-28 as National Public Work Week. Five employe
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The sandstone monument in East Muskingum Park in Marietta was carved by Gutzon Borglum, the same sculptor tied to history of the Black Hills at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota and Confederate Civil War figures carved into Stone Mountain in Georgia. (Photo by Janelle Patterson)
In times of social distancing, how does a public park project and monument owned by the City of Marietta see public engagement in decision-making?
“This is a more sophisticated version that you see of a lot of the city council meetings where they’re just doing Zoom meetings,” prefaced Kellie Grob, of 1218 Marketing and Communications LLC. “This is a software program that the Ohio Department of Transportation uses that allows the presenters to present and share slides and different things. And then it allows anybody in the public to interact, either through phone, email or chat box.”
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Marietta City Council met predominantly in executive session Wednesday to discuss active plans for litigation concerning the failure of the Marietta River Trail at Duck Creek.
The failure, a slip which has continued to grow since June 2020, necessitated additional appeals by the city administration for allocation authorization to permanently provide power to the sewer line bypass Wednesday.
Council is anticipated to vote upon that and other financial change order requests lobbed Wednesday, today during its regular business meeting if enough members support a suspension of the rules, dispense with second and third readings and pass the necessary ordinances.