The city council meeting which would have normally been held on Monday, December 23, was re-scheduled until Thursday night because of the approaching Christmas holiday.
Case writes "Mayor Orr suggests she did not use the word “emergency.” Refer to the Memorandum dated 8/9/2019. The word “emergency” is used FOUR TIMES!"
''I have not declared an emergency, the National Guard is not coming in FEMA is not coming in'' Mayor Orr said in a Friday interview with Wake Up Wyoming host Glenn Woods on KGAB,
Case said that normally the city council must sign off on expenditures of over $35,000 but that there is an exemption for emergency situations. He said he doesn't feel the potholes on Cheyenne streets right now meet that definition.
Cheyenne Mayor Marian Orr, in a memo to city council members, says the council doesn't seem to understand how the city's government is supposed to operate.