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The Early City Council held a work session at 6:30 p.m. to work on the Emergency Operations Plan.
Early City Council meeting was held on August 5, 2008. The meeting was started with the Pledge of Alliance. Mayor Richard Snyder called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. with roll call as follows: Present: Mary Ann Brinkman Pennie Irwin and Vince Davis. Absent: Bill Cougill, Randy Franken. Motion was unanimously passed by those present to approve the consent agenda, including agenda, minutes, bills for payment and Resolution 08-22 approving the annual Road Use Tax Report. Absent: Cougill, Franken. Correspondence was reviewed from Iowa League of Cities concerning Antidegredation Water Quality Rules. Motions was unanimously passed by those present to the residential building permits for Kem Morrow for a fence, Charles Langner for a garage, Elvis Villatoro for a garage and José Loera for a shed. Absent: Cougill, Franken. Motion was unanimously passed by those present to approve the commercial building permit for BobKats for a Beer Garden. Absent: Cougill. Franken. Council reviewed the current budget information. Quentin Williamson, Imagetek, gave a presentation on imaging old city documents and putting them on a server on the internet. The initial set up would be $675 and then $300 per year for maintenance and continuation. No decision was made as another presentation will be made next week from Paper Free Technology. The Mayor had no report. Supt DPW Ray Musselman reported on the month’s activities. He met with R & R each day at the lagoon site, most of the manholes are finished, MidAmerican has put in the 3-phase wiring out to the lagoon site, they moved the cement pile at the lagoon, the lead and copper tests have been done and taken to MET, the sewer main on N. Main has been cleaned and the manhole found. Ray has inventoried trees on the parking and he will get prices for the removal of those that are bad. Clerk reported on several dog problems in the last month. One dog that was running loose bit an individual, one dog while running loose has threatened numerous people and it has been found that there are several pit bulls in town against city ordinance. Clerk was instructed to have another citation drawn on the threatening dog and it must be removed from town, send letters that the pit bulls must be removed from town and the threatening dog must be removed from town. Motion was unanimously passed by those present that the 70% pay request from Municipal Pipe Tool and the 89% pay request from Sewer Rehab be approved for payment on the sewer project, less the 10% retainage. Absent: Cougill, Franken. Motion was unanimously passed by those present to approve the change order for the wet well for the lagoon project at an additional cost of $4,112.67. Absent: Cougill, Franken. Motion was unanimously passed by those present to approve Draw #5 for CDBG funds in the amount of $33,289.00 and Draw #1 for SRF loan in the amount of $86,340.88. Absent: Cougill, Franken. Motion was unanimously passed by those present to approve four more manholes to be repaired. Absent: Cougill, Franken. Motion was unanimously passed by those present to approve internet service to the shop. Absent: Cougill, Franken. No decision was made on web master as another bid will be gotten. Because the next council meeting would fall on September 2 after a holiday on Monday, the September Council meeting will be changed to Wednesday, September 3. The Clerk reported the following receipts for the month of July:
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The following bills were approved for payment in the consent agenda:
Richard Snyder, Mayor |
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