Elkhart mayor helping successor learn the ropes

by Ed Ernstes (ernstes@wsbt.com)

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Elkhart Mayor Dave Miller and incoming mayor Dick Moore

Elkhart Mayor Dave Miller (right) met with incoming mayor Dick Moore (left) on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007 to help ease the transition to the new administration. (WSBT photo)

By Beth Boehne

(WSBT) It's something you rarely see in politics — a mayor from one political party helping his replacement learn the ropes. But that is what's happening in Elkhart.

“This kind of thing has never been done before,” said Elkhart’s Mayor David Miller. “It certainly wasn't done when I came in."

Mayor Miller is helping incoming mayor Dick Moore with a smooth transition to office come January 1.

Miller met with Moore for several hours Monday morning to go over current municipal projects and plans.

They also spent time discussing other facets of running City Hall.

“For the benefit of the taxpayers of the city who we serve and who we both love and want to see prosper and succeed, we are attempting to do as smooth a hand-off as possible, so that they have every chance of succeeding and serving the citizens,” Miller explained.

"I think maybe we've done of couple of things here that are somewhat unprecedented,” said Moore. “One certainly is this transition meeting. It’s been extremely enlightening. We're not really quite finished with that, as a matter of fact, yet. But we've been given an awful lot to digest. But I think it does make our transition a lot smoother.”

But help with the transition for incoming mayor Dick Moore does not end there. Outgoing mayor Dave Miller says he will be on call, even when the new administration takes office. Miller says he will be a phone call away if advice or help is needed.

“Your allowing us to call yourself and others after January 1, I can't imagine not having a question for Mayor Miller on something that comes up after the first of the year,” Moore said.

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