At last night’s city council meeting, Charleston resident Bob Lewis questioned why residents did not know sooner that council members Lorelei Sims and Marge Knoop would only be serving a two-year term instead of a four-year term due to switching of city manager form of government.

“My main concern that it was dropped as a bombshell. I find it unacceptable that this has sat there for four and a half years,” said Lewis.

The statute was discovered by the League of Women Voters.

“People are expressing concern because no one was privy to this knowledge,” said Sims.

“I wish we’d all known but I’m pleased the League of Women Voters pointed it out,” said Mayor Dan Cougill during the meeting about the issue.

Also during the meeting, the council passed the ordinance that will increase the rates for the ambulance service of the city to be on public inspection. “More service is being provided,” said Cougill.

“I can guarentee that we’ve saved a lot of lives,” said council member John Winnett about the city’s ambulance service.

Other ordinances that were passed to be on public inspection were the addition of stop signs to the following intersections: Hawthorne and Shawnee Drive, Sawnee and Tanglewood Drive and Fawn Hollow Drive and LIncoln Highway Road.

The tax levy for the fiscal year of 2002/2003 was also placed on public inspection.