July kicked off with our usual Sandy Fireworks display on the 4th, and then rolled quickly into Sandy Mt. Festival.  I am happy to report that the City Hall staff won an award for our float at the SMF Parade.  Chief Roberts reported no major incidents during any of these fun July events.

We continued to have branding meetings and prepared the background information that North Star needed to work up a logo and tag line for us.

I attended the Oregon City and County Managers Assoc. Conference June 11-14th.  Long days, but well worth the time as we did a lot of training and had some great speakers.

The benefits committee convened on July 1th to discuss options for staffing and pay equability.  We are going to update all job descriptions and then conduct a salary and benefits comparison to see where city staff falls when compared to our comparable cities.

During the month of July we had several land use meetings and discussions about property for sale by others, wanting information about development of parcels and an evaluation of city properties.

The Emergency Operations Center was inventoried and updated on July 31st.