BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

A recommendation from Mayor Dale McBride to appoint Caney resident Nancy Moore to a vacant position on the Caney Valley Recreation Commission was rejected by city councilors on Monday.

The city by-laws require the mayor to issue a recommendation for any vacant position on city boards and commissions with the council granting concurrence to that recommendation. Councilors cannot make their own recommendations, except when it deals with a vacant position on the city council itself.
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CANEY — City councilors got into a sparring match at their Dec. 22 meeting with a Caney resident concerning persistent allegations of nuisances on the resident’s property.

The council had been receiving monthly updates from property owner Kenith Butts concerning the removal of a portion of his house in the 400 block of North State Street. In recent weeks, city staff had received more reports from neighbors about fowl that is kept at the Butts property as well as allegations that he is storing more metal items in the backyard of his property.

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BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

CANEY —Alyssa Whitman, the 18-year-old daughter of Caney city administrator Don Whitman, was appointed by the Caney City Council on Monday night to fill the unexpired term of a ward 3 council seat.

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BY ANDY TAYLOR

CANEY — For the second time in as many weeks, Caney city councilors nixed a proposal by a Bartlesville business owner to erect a cellular telephone tower southwest of the intersection of Sixth and McGee streets.

The council’s latest rejection of the proposal by Kevin Potter, owner of several Bartlesville radio stations, came Monday at a special meeting of the council.

At its April 20 meeting, city councilors voted 7-0 to deny the recommendation from the Caney Planning and Zoning Commission to rezone the property near Sixth and McGee streets from B-1 (business) to A-1 (agricultural) that was needed to accommodate the proposed 199-foot cellular telephone tower. City ordinance require cellular transmission towers to be zoned in an A-1 setting. The council also nixed a proposed Conditional Use Permit that Potter would have needed to erect that tower in that location.

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