Oct 11 council meeting

Not a real big docket last night. Biggest things of note: we approved an ordiance moving all future city council meetings to the community center. Hopefully that will be a more inviting place for citizens to come to our meetings, and it gives everybody a little more room, and some council members won't have to have their backs to the public.

The biggest time discussion was regarding costs of what to do with water runoff in the Britson Circle area. Our city engineer gave a couple options. One is grading the Britson Park area, to get overland flow to the SW, so the Britson Circle storm sewers would no longer have that water to deal with. That was going to be something like $45k.

The next is to run a new storm sewer up along Maple. With all the utilities in the ditch, it would have to run under Maple. I am in no way interested in that. Pretty costly too.

Another is to get easements from property owners on Duea and Logan, and run a new storm sewer direct to the creek. We are organizing a community meeting with those neighborhoods to see if that is an option. The city would have to secure a right a way for that. Not sure if those folks would be open to that, but we are going to see. If you are in those neighborhoods, stayed tuned for a future meeting date. Late October or early November I'm guessing.

The other option, which is the mostly costly, but least disruptive is to run a storm sewer south thru Britson Park, along the new portion of Arthur, and then thru the field to the south, where a future housing development would go. It is a long way, but it is all bare ground. That might run 400K.

These are the costs of doing stuff half arse through the years. And we have to decide what to fix and what to upgrade, and what to just leave. More to come on that. If you have any input, feel free to come to a council meeting, and give your opinion.