Public Notice

City of Cool Valley Missouri

Candidate Filing for April 4th, 2016

Persuant to Section 115.127 of the Revised Missouri Statutes, notice is hereby given that the following office is to be filled at the Municipal Election to be held on Tuesday, April 4th, 2016.

Mayor of the City of Cool Valley   (FOUR YEAR TERM)

Opening Date for Filing: Tuesday December 15th, 2015

Closing Date of Filing: Tuesday January 19th,  2016

Declaration of Candidacy may be filed with the City Clerk, 100 Signal hill Drive between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.  Hours will be extended to 5:00 p.m. on the last day of filing.

Declarations of candidacy received shall be placed on the ballot in the order they are received.

The last day to register to vote for this election is March 9th, 2016

Deborah Jones – City Clerk – Cool Valley, Missouri

Board meetings are held at City Hall, at 7:30 PM the 4th Wednesday of each month.

This year the City of Cool Valley was one of 12, 24:1 Area Municipalities to receive An award of up to $10,000 from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) through its Tree Resource Improvement Resource and Maintenance (TRIM) cost-share grant program.  Beyond Housing responsible for writing grants collaborating with 10 of the 12 municipalities.

As a result, up to $70,000 is available to be invested in the following communities 10 municipalities -  Bellerive Acres, Cool Valley, Glen Echo Park, Hanley Hills, Pagedale, Pine Lawn, Upland Park, Velda Village Hills, Vinita Park, and Vinita Terrace.  MDC funds are matched with recipient funds improve trees in the community, resulting in a total investment of close to $100,000.  This is a competitive grant that helps communities provide safe and healthy trees. Investments in trees provide lasting improvements in cleaning the air, soil and water.

This is the second year that these 10 communities have received such a grant.  Last year, Beyond Housing received a collaborative Tree Trim grant of $25,000 that paid for professional tree inventories for all 10 of these communities.  By contracting the work together, the group estimated close to 40% in savings compared to what similar municipalities paid in recent years.  The participating municipalities anticipate jointly bidding the work to make their dollars go farther.

The City wide Yard Sale will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2014 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.