Two resolutions were passed at the May 4th City Council  meeting. Resolution 08-2009 Amending the License,  Permits and Procedures Book and Adopting New Sewer  Rates for the City of Coquille and Authorizing the rates and  Fees Contained Therein, was passed unanimously by the  council . Simply put this means sewer rates will be going  up $1.00 a month starting in July.

Only sewer base rates  will be affected, water rates will remain the same.  Resolution 09-2009 Amending the Personal and Policy  Manual of the City of Coquille passed five to two with  Bruce Parker and Corky Daniels casting the dissenting  votes. This resolution states that city employees although  encouraged to live within the city limits, residency will not  be a condition of employment, EXCEPT any employee  defined as emergency personnel shall be required to reside  within either a 30 minute response time or with in the City  of Coquille urban study area.

Councilor Corky Daniels, who  was in local law enforcement for years told the Sentinel that  he felt the 30 minute time limit was to far away. He felt  emergency employees should be required to live closer to  have shorter response time.  In the City Managers report Manager Terrence O'Conner  asked the council to consider options on a couple of variables  regarding paving city streets. Number one was the  amount of city funds the council is willing to commit to the  project. The second variable is what streets to consider. In  an interview withO'Conner today, he agreed that many city  streets are in need of repair and the city is working hard to  come up with the funds needed for those repairs and to  match priorities to those funds. The Sentinel willendevor to  keep citizens updated on those decisions.