Elgin City Council voted this week on measures for the November Ballot

By Shannon Weidemann (McKone) on Friday, July 15th, 2022 in More Top Stories Northeastern Oregon News

ELGIN – At this week’s Elgin City Council meeting the council voted to move a couple of new measures to the November ballot. According to City Administrator Brock Eckstein the first one will be making the City Administrator job an appointed job instead of an elected job, which means that the city council would be able to appoint and hire and administer. Eckstein notes that Elgin is unique as they are one of the only cities in the state that holds an election for its administrator.

A couple of the other measures will include one that will enable people wishing to run for City Council to pay a $50 fee rather than collect 20 signatures to get their name on the ballot.

Then the other measure will be changing the title of Recorder Administrator to Administrator to help with that job search when the council can hire an administer.

Anyone who many have questions can contact the Elgin City Hall or speak with a councilor.