At the Casper city council meeting on Tuesday, the council heard from the Casper police chief, Keith McPheeters, on how compliant certain businesses were in Casper over the past year.
Casper City Council Grapples With Need for New Police Station
Outgrown.
Impractical.
A memo from Chief Keith McPheeters and Capt. Shane Chaney to City Manager Carter put it this way: Currently, storage closets and janitorial spaces have been converted into office spaces. Offices meant to hold one workspace now have three people juggling to use the limited space.
The Casper City Council at its work session Tuesday reviewed options about the police department housed in the mid-1970s-era Hall of Justice, 201 S. David St., which is shared with the Natrona County Sheriff s Office and the District Attorney s Office.
McPheeters presented the concerns to the council, saying the police department has never had a home of its own, and that affected its ability to provide public safety.
Casper City Council to Revisit Tobacco Ordinance
The Casper City Council decided Tuesday to redo its ordinance about the age at which someone can buy and use tobacco and nicotine products to be put back for a vote.
Earlier then defeated proposed revisions would have aligned the Casper Municipal Code to changes in state law that, as of July 1, prohibited the sale, purchase, possession and use of nicotine products by anyone under 21. A violation would be a misdemeanor.
But on Dec. 1, the proposed changes lost on a 5-4 vote with some opposition council members saying raising the age from 18 to 21 was arbitrary and ridiculous like laws about the legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages.