City Council Meeting

Notes and highlights from the council meeting tonite....The council approved the street plan for the Arthur and Bryan extensions. That means we have approved the street plans to go to bid. We will be opening the bids on July 20 I believe. At that point, the council can approve or disapprove the bids. The bid will have a completion date of December 31. With the slow economy, that should help pricing, but with the wet weather, contractors are a bit behind, and that should hurt pricing. If it comes in too high, we can always rebid next year, as we are in no particular hurry with this project.

We also had a discussion around applying for the Safe Streets to School grant. A lot involved with this, but things we are pondering are improved sidewalks from the Samson Street area to the school, and then potentially a bridge over Bear Creek, to keep kids from having to walk along Maple for extended times. A lot of work to do with that, but we will be investigating funding for such a project.

The council did final approval for the water and wastewater rate increase. See a previous blog post for how much that may cost you. That should go in effect in July.

We also discussed, and then tabled a change in who we might use for city engineer. We got some proposals from various engineering firms. So we are going to ponder that.

We also reviewed bids for demolition of the abandoned house on S. Cottonwood. The property still does not belong to the city. It takes a long time for the transfer of that property. So basically we just need to wait. Hang in there....

And a reminder that fireworks are on July 3.