Cameron Newspapers

01/23/2025

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God provides...

01/23/2025

Link to this story at www.mycameronnews.com

Cameron---After seven years of service as Cameron City Manager, Steve Rasmussen announced that he would retire from the position effective May 5.Rasmussen tendered his letter, attached here, and prese

01/23/2025

EDITOR'S NOTE: We got the story on Steve Rasmussen's retirement wrong...for about 90 minutes.
It was a mistake made worse by an inability to access the internet due to a family medical emergency, and a lack of access to the Cameron Newspaper's page until arriving today.
We were able, almost immediately, to correct the story at www.mycameronnews.com, but couldn't correct the Facebook portion until this morning.
Apologies to Steve and our readers. Sometimes, life gets in the way.

01/23/2025

BREAKING NEWS: RASMUSSEN ANNOUNCES MAY 5 RETIREMENT
Wed, 01/22/2025 - 5:42pm admin
By:
Mark McLaughlin, Editor, Citizen-Observer
Cameron---After seven years of service as Cameron City Manager, Steve Rasmussen announced that he would retire from the position effective May 5.
Rasmussen tendered his letter, attached here, and presented it to the City Council in closed session following the completion of a tempestuous January 21 Council meeting which moved ahead with contracting an engineer to provide bid-ready designs on City Hall Repair, and approved new water rates to coincide with the online launch of the Great Northwest Wholesale Water Commission pipeline at the end of April.
Rasmussen's letter , dated January 17, 2025 stated:
Mayor Curtis and Members of the City Council, I would like for you to consideer this my request to officially retire from my position as City Manager with my Last day being May 5, 2025, which will be the first Council meeting in May. I do this with great mixed feelings , of course, because I have very much enjoyed working for the City and know that there are many important thingas yet to be done. I have, however, been working as a City Manager for many years and it is time that I spend more time now with my family and on personal affairs. I wish the very best for the City and will continue to do all that I can to help after I retire whatever and wherever possible. Thank you so much for the opportunity to have served here.
Steve Rasmussen
In a Thursday afternoon phone call, Rasmussen brushed off the rumored report that he had in fact resigned.
"I've known for a long time that we had big issues to resolve, with the pipeline, City Hall and other things." Rasmussen said. "But I also know that there will always be another major issue around the bend, and feel it's time to start readying to move on."
Rasmussen first informed the Mayor with his letter last Friday, and heads turned towards the end of the Council meeting when Councilman John Feighert used his comments to thank Rasmussen for all his years and everything done in the service of the city.
The Citizen-Observer will meet with Rasmussen on Friday and come from that meeting with more information on Rasmussen's plans to wrap it up and conclude major projects, most pointedly from him to get the Pipeline completed and City Hall on the way to repair.

01/21/2025

This link should work...

Tuesday night’s Cameron City Council Meeting will address the water portion of the suggested Utility Rate hikes which are projected to raise citizen monthly payments on water, sewer and electric rates

01/20/2025

01/20/2025

What we're working on this week at the C-O...click the link

News... 1) Rate study/pipeline questions A) can we assume that a 65% water rate increase is just to break even when assuming the payments on the pipeline?

01/17/2025

So how do the Utility Rate Study "recommendations" affect you? It's somewhere between "Ouch" and "Poing!!

Cameron --- Engineering firm HDR presented its findings on Cameron’s current utility rate structures for electric, water, and sewer service, and while discussion during the event was muted at best, sa

01/17/2025

Click on the link below to view the City's commissioned Utility Rate Structure recommendation, received and discussed in the January 14 Work Session.
Story to follow...We've been working hard on our research on this story to present an understandable explanation of what's going on with this.
Bottom line...long story short...utility rates are going up significantly.

See attached the Rate Study presentation to the City Council during their work session January 14. Comprehensive follow-up story to come...We've been researching this since Tuesday night.

01/12/2025

Editorial take on the City Hall decision...Go forward on City Hall Repair, at flank speed, then it's first star to the right, and straight on til morning...

The McLaughlin FilesFor 1/16/2025 editionI’m publishing Quinten Lovejoy’s “Steak-Apple-Ham Sandwich” post game takeaways on the January 9 Cameron City Council Meeting, under the heading of a letter to

01/09/2025

Gina Reed-Hibler released her plan for the 3rd Street Buildings in this remarkably transparent interview and report to the city. It should answer a lot of questions about Cameron's SECOND biggest community problem going forward.

Reed-Hibler submits plan to City for 200 Block of Third Street BuildingsBy Mark McLaughlinEditor, Citizen-Observer Cameron —Gina Reed-Hibler, city councilwoman, area real estate developer and historic