The Cumberland City Council will soon begin broadcasting their monthly meeting over the community channel, to help dispel rumors about how the city is being run.

On Tuesday Cumberland Mayor Loretta Cornett spoke with the city council about how rumors have been running rampant throughout the community about how the council is, or isn’t, running the city properly, and starting very soon all council meetings will be taped and also televised on the community channel in the Tri-Cities area.

Cornett hopes by broadcasting the meeting members of the community who don’t come will now have an opportunity to see how the city council conducts their business.

Cornett explained that Roy Baker from Access Cable will be sending, supplying and broadcasting the meeting so the community can see exactly what is said and done during the council meetings.

“I think it is fantastic,” Cornett said. “I think it is a wonderful thing, that way the community, not just Cumberland, but Benham and Lynch can see exactly how our meetings are conducted and see all of our accomplishments.”

One such accomplishment that will begin construction soon is the work to repair Main street.

Cornett informed the council that by spring, Cumberland would be the fourth city to have all of its old pavement milled up on Main Street and have brand new pavement put down in its place.

Cornett also asked the council to check into purchasing a plaque for the new the Billips Avenue bridge. The plaque will be to honor former mayor Nicey Hazen.

Council member Kateena Haynes suggested that a road sign and park for Hazen would also be something to consider. The council was in agreement about the plaque and decided it will research several types of plaques and ways to attach them to the Billips Avenue bridge.

Cornett also said she was informed that the new bridge would either be entirely done, or nearly complete before or on the date of the city’s Christmas parade in December. Cornett said she would check back with the contractors and see if everything was still on schedule after the small flooding the city dealt with earlier in the month.