City Council might consider hiring compliance officer

One of a half dozen topics discussed at the Tuesday night Malta City Council meeting was the possibility of hiring a person to be a compliance officer for Malta.

Malta Mayor Shyla Jones and the City Council have been discussing the idea for the past severals month and Mayor Jones said she recently talked with Phillips County Justice of the Peace Gayle Stahl and reported that Judge Stahl thinks the idea worthy of pressuring.

“She says we need to get some accountability out there and right now we have none,” Mayor Jones added.

The Compliance Officer would, at the very least, make sure...