City Council meeting April 25 part 1

I think we had the most agenda items for a meeting since I have been mayor--17. Though we got done in 75 minutes, so that is good. A lot of interesting stuff, so I'm gonna hit the high points, not sure I will get to it all tonite, but I will start.

We took care of some financial biz, for who is taking care of our bond. Deneen normally handles that, but with her out of the office, we have deferred the task of assuring payment to a bank. We also got an easement squared away for improving the sewer line for the E-W part of Samson Street.

As for that one, we are going to change how the Samson sewer line comes to the main trunk. When flows get high, it can backup down Samson pretty easily, on how the hook up is. It will be changed so the water would have to back up into Samson, instead of flowing directly into it. This fix is not guaranteeing no more problems, but it should cut down on them quite a bit, in the high flow times.

We also approved a produce stand, from a farmer south of Roland, to set up this summer on the city's lot north of Casey's. Sounds like this will be on Saturday mornings, and a nice feature for Roland residents to get some local vegetables and such.

I made a proclamation for May as Older Americans Month in Roland. We had a bunch of our active senior citizens come to the meeting, with a discussion of all the volunteer work they do in conjunction with Heartland Senior Services. Quite an impressive list of things these folks do in our community.

Lynn Schulte of RADC stopped by to talk about their efforts to get an electronic message sign for Roland. They probably want to put it near Casey's. It is going to cost at least $10,000, and RADC is trying to raise funds and get grants for that. There is going to be a fundraiser meal for this coming up on the 5th. Stayed tuned to this spot, I'll pimp it, when I confirm that. I do know it will be at the community center.

That's enough on the meeting for now. I'll add more later.