Monday evenings Superior City Council opened with a moment of silence in recognition of the horrific events of Thursday. The meeting was unsually subdued as not a single resident of the community other than this newspaper’s reporter, city staff and council people were present.

The council agreed to proposed change in the personnel policy with regard to catastrophic illness. The change provides more opportunity for city employees to donate leave time to a co-worker.

The council approved contracting with Five Rule Planning to conduct a blight and substandard study. Currently about 35 perc...