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A listing of upcoming public meetings and events of interest involving City government, and the greater Rolla community. For information on items with no contact number, please call City Hall at 364-1384. For an additional community calendar of events, visit the Rolla Chamber of Commerce.
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Throughout the month of March we have a chance to make sure that our community gets its fair share of resources for the next 10 years. How?
By filling out your 2010 census form and mailing it in. The information collected helps ensure that we get the resources that we need and deserve.
Census data is used to determine everything from road improvements and funding for schools to new businesses moving into the area.
This time around the census form is shorter, just 10 short questions, and your private information is kept just that – private for 72 years.
Our community has a lot riding on this and it’s up to each of us to do our part so please fill out your 2010 census form and drop it in the mail at your earliest convenience.
The City of Rolla Environmental Services Department will hold the annual City-wide “Spring Clean-up” on Saturday, April 3. If you wish to participate, we ask that you please place all items near the curb by 6 a.m.
Examples of items that will be accepted include: furniture, microwaves, televisions, old clothes, and household trash. Items that will not be accepted include: appliances, water heaters, yard waste, tires, or construction debris such as sheet rock, shingles, concrete or rock. Loose items should be placed in boxes or bags and small pieces of lumber should be bundled.
We ask that you do not place your roll-out container to the curb, because during this special spring clean-up it will not be emptied. If you have any questions, please call the Environmental Services Department at (573) 364-6693.
The City of Rolla Environmental Services Department resumed the curbside collection of yard waste in brown paper biodegradable bags on Monday, March 8.
Yard waste bags (containing leaves, grass clippings and small sticks) should be out to the curb by 6 a.m. on your regular trash collection day.
For more information, please contact the Environmental Services office at 364-6693 or visit the City of Rolla Website at www.rollacity.org/waste.
The City of Rolla Environmental Services Department would like to inform the community that the Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) disposal program is temporarily suspended while there is a transition between service contractors.
In the interim period, appointments are not being scheduled and HHW materials cannot be accepted at the Recycling Center until further notice. However, during regular operating hours, the Recycling Center will still be accepting rechargeable batteries, lead-acid batteries, and electronic waste.
For more information, please call 364-6693.
Rolla Mayor Bill Jenks, III, pictured center, reviews the D.R.E.A.M. (Downtown Revitalization Economic Assistance Missouri) Initiative Scope of Services during a meeting for the City of Rolla at the Office of Missouri Development Finance Board in Jefferson City on Friday, Jan. 29. Also pictured (l to r) are: Bob Donnelly, Business Development Manager, Missouri Department of Economic Development; Lonna Sowers, President, Rolla Downtown Business Association; Andy Papen, Compliance Manager, Missouri Department of Economic Development; Rolla’s Director of Community Development John Petersen; Rolla City Administrator John Butz; Stevie Kearse, Executive Director, Rolla Area Chamber of Commerce; Kimberly Martin, Community Development Program Manager, Missouri Development Finance Board, Bill Marshall, Chief Executive Officer, Phelps County Bank and Russell Volmert, Associate Director of Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets, Inc.
The City of Rolla is one of five Missouri communities who were selected for the D.R.E.A.M. Initiative, which is a program designated to help communities to more efficiently and effectively engage in downtown redevelopment and revitalization efforts. Another benefit of being selected as a DREAM Community is that Rolla will become an active member of the DREAM Initiative for three-years and will gain prioritized access to state supported programs through ongoing cooperation among several unique agencies and funding sources.
These programs include technical and financial assistance for infrastructure improvements, historic preservation, affordable housing, community services, business development and job creation. (Scott Grahl/City of Rolla photo)
Initial reports in the media and on the Internet of the missing 13-year-old Philadelphia girl named Ashley Flores have proven to be nothing more than a very bad hoax, according to numerous law enforcement agencies and credible news outlets.
Despite conclusive evidence that the original missing person report and Amber Alert regarding Ashley Flores was a hoax concocted by a kid's prank, the Rolla Police Department still receives hundreds of calls every day regarding her status.
A variety of searches through law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigations, New Jersey State Police and Philadelphia Police, and numerous missing child websites such as The Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), confirms there has never been an official report of a missing girl named Ashley Flores.
The Rolla Police Department is trying to spread the word that although Ashley Flores may exist, reports of her disappearance were an unfortunate internet hoax. Pranks such as these are not only illegal, but also hamper and interfere with communications and law enforcement operations.
For more information, please go here or call Lt. Doug James at 573-308-1213