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Government

Cottonwood Heights Police 1st Annual Recognition Program and Banquet

September 24, 2009

Cottonwood Heights 1st Recognition Program and Banquet
I had the privilege of attending the 1st Annual Recognition Program and Banquet for the Cottonwood Heights Police Department.
I’m here to tell you it was really fun and well done. The event was organized by Officer Michael Galieti and gang. This was not your typical rubber chicken dinner [...]

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Cottonwood Heights Proactive Policing

July 30, 2009

I ran across this video that features the Cottonwood Heights Police Department doing their proactive policing. The Cottonwood Heights Police Department is almost a year old and have made great strides under the direction of Police Chief Robby Russo and his gang.
In less than a year they have gotten rid of some serious drug dealers, [...]

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A 4th Grader Is The Star of the Cottonwood Heights City Council Meeting

May 29, 2009

It was a typical city council meeting, people complaining about one thing or another, budgets being presented, fire department and other reports. 
But the real star of the meeting was Hope Allen.
Hope is a Cottonwood Heights fourth grader from Butler Elementary School. She was at the Cottonwood Heights City Council Meeting to present to the council [...]

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Impressed With Cottonwood Heights City Council

May 21, 2009

 

Impressed With Cottonwood Heights City Council
I want to share with you my observations of a Cottonwood Heights City Council work session. This is where the city council, city manager, city attorney, city planner, and various other department heads meet and work through issues. The meeting started at 6:00 PM and goes till finished. Well when [...]

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Cottonwood Heights Valley Journal Reporter

May 13, 2009

Cottonwood Heights City Council Meeting

For those that live in Cottonwood Heights and get the Cottonwood/Holladay Valley Journal have read an article or two from Stephanie Archibald.  She covers government things among other stories for the Journal.
As a hard working person she was at the Cottonwood Heights City Council Meeting Tuesday evening. For those that have [...]

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Things You Can Learn At A Cottonwood Heights Town Meeting

May 2, 2009

Cottonwood Heights District 4 Town Meeting
Something I learned by attending a Cottonwood Heights District 4 Town Meeting. According to Cottonwood Height’s Police Chief Robby Russo the Police Vehicles are leased and they are not painted, they are wrapped. So when the lease is up the wraps come off. Leasing saves money on a monthly budget.
I [...]

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Cottonwood Heights Getting Some Stimulus

May 1, 2009

Cottonwood Heights Getting
Some Stimulus

The Cottonwood Heights intersection at 3000 East, 6200 South and the I-215 ramps is going to get a nice makeover. We are getting about $1.8 million dollars of federal stimulus money we are giving matching money of about $127,000. That is a nice set of our tax dollars coming back to us.
The [...]

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4th District Town Meeting April 29th 2009

April 30, 2009

I attended district 4 town meeting and it was a fairly typical event and well attended. There are those citizens that exercise their right to complain about things. Some complaints are legitimate and serve as a beta testing for the leadership. A good example is the Gravel pit, the city has worked with the gravel [...]

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The City Of Cottonwood Heights Says No Go On The Logo

November 22, 2008

I got a letter from the City of Cottonwood Heights. I’m thinking cool, I am a citizen that promotes the city well, I write good things about the police department, I serve on the school’s community council, I pay taxes, I rent office space in the city, and I spend money in the city. I’m [...]

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Cottonwood Heights Is Crazy About Their Police

October 12, 2008

Red ribbon week is the oldest and largest drug prevention program in the nation reaching millions of young people.
Butler Elementary School had their campaign October 6th through the 10th. The campaign had the kids doing different things all week.

Monday

Crazy Socks Day

Sock It To Drugs

Tuesday

Backwards Day

Turn Your Back on Drugs

Wednesday

Crazy Hair Day

I am Crazy about being [...]

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