MASON CITY – As the Mason City council prepares to approve a hog slaughterhouse at Tuesday night’s city council meeting, preparations are being made to ensure safety and security for the expected large turnout.
Due to high attendance estimates for tonight’s City Council meeting at the Mason City Public Library, the Mason City police department is asking for attendees to review the following information.
- Doors will open for the meeting at 6:30 p.m. No signs or bags/backpacks of any kind will be allowed inside the Mason City Room. Those interested in attending may begin to line up at 6 p.m. starting at the west door and following the front of the Library building. See the white arrow in the attached photo.
- A staging area has been established for large groups who plan to attend the meeting. In order to facilitate the smooth flow of pedestrian and vehicle traffic, large groups are asked to use this staging area as marked on the photo. This will help us to insure the safety of everyone in the area and to not disrupt normal operations for library staff or patrons.
- Once the occupant load of the Mason City Room has been reached, as determined by Fire Code, attendees will be directed to the Commons area at the library. The meeting will be televised there and attendees will still have the opportunity to speak at the public forum.
- Signs, flags, or other printed materials may not be attached to city property or placed in the ground at the library. Please plan to carry or hold these items in lieu of attaching them to city property.
- We will have officers on-site to help manage traffic and to answer questions. Please follow their directions. We ask for your patience as you arrive and participate in the meeting.
Most of the people who are bellyaching about this pork plant will be sitting on their butts tonight instead of showing their opposition by showing up at the council meeting with signs stating same. I bet they didn’t email, mail, phone, or talk to their council person about their views. They just bellyached and wondered why no one listened.
Why do I have the feeling the Councils mind has been made up and tonite they have to fess up finally. A wonderful community looking to further our downtown area to soon be filled with the stench and all that goes along with it. Why is it the tax payers vote mean nothing? Obama administration full blown in River City.
Believe me, President Obama had nothing to do with this BS!!!
Tonight the city of Mason City officially becomes the “Armpit of Iowa” …I have 1st hand knowledge this has already caused four new possible businesses to go elsewhere including two restaurants. Many lifelong residents have expressed they will be moving out in the next year. This council will regret the hundreds of hog carrying trucks….employee turnover…and soon to be confinements because we simply do not have enough hogs to meet their quota’s.. MC DIED TONIGHT!
MC has been dying a long and painful death for years upon years.
“I have 1st hand knowledge this has already caused four new possible businesses to go elsewhere including two restaurants”
Name them
“Many lifelong residents have expressed they will be moving out in the next year”
So?
“This council will regret the hundreds of hog carrying trucks”
More business is regretful?
“employee turnover”
Just like every other business has?
“and soon to be confinements because we simply do not have enough hogs to meet their quotas”
Lack of evidence of this, also misspelled word.
tl;dr If you aren’t willing to do what needs be done – shut your pie hole.
the vote was in before MC even knew about it..
DONE DEAL…for better or worse!?