City Of Cheyenne: The Mayor's Minute From Mayor Patrick Collins

Cheyenne WY

23 May, 2022

1:55 PM

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Press release from the City of Cheyenne: May 20, 2022 CHEYENNE – We have great partners in Laramie County. We get together once a month to talk about our agencies and discuss what is happening in the community. This week we had Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) President and CEO Tim Thornell, County Commissioner Brian Lovett, Visit Cheyenne/DDA Director Domenic Bravo, LEADS CEO Betsey Hale, Representative Henderson, Chamber Director Dale Steenbergen, Councilman Dr. Mark Rinne, and I all on the line for over an hour. These meetings started during the pandemic, and everyone felt it important enough to continue it today. I think it speaks well of the collaboration and cooperation of everyone involved. Thank you. Our fire union contract requires me to meet with the union once a quarter. We meet many more times than that, but our official quarterly meeting was this week. We talked about everything from the upcoming Fifth Penny Sales Tax and how it could help equip the fire department, to the status of our new fire stations, to a new schedule the firefighters would like to adopt. Both sides have worked hard on our relationship in an effort to get from being adversarial to cooperative. It has taken a bit of trust, but we are definitely making progress. I have nominated Jason Sanchez to replace the retiring Teresa Moore as the director of our Community Recreation and Events (CRE) Department. This is a huge department with many moving parts. I will write about Teresa in July as her retirement date gets closer, but I met with both of them to discuss the transition and the hiring of a new deputy director. This change has the potential to see five or six promotions as folks move up. It is exciting to see the growth for our team members. I will miss Teresa and am excited for this opportunity for Jason. Last Saturday was an amazing day for me. It started with the Day of Service. A bunch of folks showed up to help clean up the city. I saw bags and bags of trash collected and placed to be picked up, flower beds cleaned out, and families volunteering to make Cheyenne a better place to live. I stopped by the Spiker Parking Garage and met members of the Cheyenne Underground and 307 Motor Mafia car clubs painting over the graffiti. It took hours and they had their nice cars and sound systems working to help make the time fly by. When I left, the garage looked amazing. Sadly a few hours later someone started tagging it again. On Thursday the 307 Motor Mafia was back to clean the garage up again. Good news is our police department caught two 14-year old's painting the garage on Tuesday and arrested them. This press release was produced by the City of Cheyenne. The views expressed here are the author's own.