The following are the unapproved minutes from the Burns City Council meeting held April 8. These minutes have been edited for clarity and length: Interim City Manager Dauna Wensenk reported that: • the Safe Communities Coalition grant for carseats, which was administered by the city for years, will be moving to Harney

Photo by RANDY PARKS Front loaders and dump trucks were busy in the early morning hours removing snow from North Broadway after ODOT told the city that ‘center-berming’ was no longer acceptable on the street. It’s not unusual to see snow berms down the middle of North Broadway in Burns after a

The following are the unapproved minutes of the Burns City Council meeting that was held on Dec. 1. These minutes were edited for length and clarity. Interim City Manager Dennis Davis reported the following: • The public works department and the police department are working together to get vehicles moved off the

by Randy Parks Burns Times-Herald With the resignation of Gary Estep, the Burns City Council has a vacant seat once again. At a special meeting of the council on Oct. 30, Estep announced he was resigning from the council, and on Nov. 13, the council voted to accept his resignation. In his resignation

The following are the unapproved minutes of the Burns City Council special meeting held Oct. 30. These minutes were edited for length and clarity. The Burns City Council met in a special meeting on Oct. 30, at 5:15 p.m. Expressing a need to move forward, Victoria Schmidt and Jennifer Keady said they

On Oct. 9, the Burns City Council voted to terminate its search for a city manager and instead hire an interim for a short period of time. At the council meeting on Oct. 23, it was announced that the city had come to terms with Don Munkers to fill the interim

The Burns City Council held a special meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 16, to discuss the city manager position. At the council meeting on Oct. 9, the council voted to stop the recruitment process for a city manager and start the process to hire an interim city manager. The city then contacted

Following the sudden resignation of the newly-hired city manager, the Burns City Council held a special meeting on Aug. 21 to discuss moving forward in the process of hiring another city manager. Mayor Jerry Woodfin stated that he didn’t want to put together another hiring committee, as he would prefer that

File photo On Wednesday, Aug. 14, the Burns City Council voted to accept David Sneddon’s resignation from the Burns city manager position.   David Sneddon’s stint as city manager for the city of Burns turned out to be a short one. On Wednesday, Aug. 14, the Burns City Council held a lengthy executive meeting, in accordance

The search for a new city manager for the city of Burns is proceeding on schedule. At the Burns Council meeting on June 26, Burns Mayor Jerry Woodfin reported that the search committee narrowed the search down to five applicants. The city will conduct interviews with the five applicants on July