March 28 council meeting

Mostly uneventful council meeting on Monday night. The street work on Bryan might be delayed a week or so, waiting for it to warm up. We are also going to tear out 2 sections of street on the older portion of Bryan, while the contractors are here, so we can figure out what is wrong with that section of street, and what repairs might be necesssary.

We talked with a Park Board rep about some items in their proposed budget. We decided to keep the items they had requested in the budget. There is no funding for upgrades in Britson Park right now, what is to be funded is for existing parks.

We also cut some planned upgrade items from the Pool Board's proposal. Not that they aren't valid items, we decided from the city as a whole, that we had other priorities. Mostly it was in regards to items in the pool park--not necessarily in the pool itself.

We got a report that the speed sign coming into town has been fixed, so that is good. No more people driving 99MPH or the crazy numbers it was reporting back in January or so.

We also talked about our proposed property sales on Cottonwood and Arthur. More details will take place at the next meeting.

We also talked about the contribution to RADC (Roland Area Development Corp) for completion of the purchase of the community center. That will be an expenditure of about $49,000 to pay that off. The community center will still be run through RADC, but RADC does not generate the revenue to pay it off, and pay the utilities and such. I find all that a bit bothersome, but it is a nice facility, and a good addition for the City of Roland, at a pretty reasonable price. Most communities have a similar facility, so it is something nice that we can offer up for folks having parties and such. And it continues to have Sunday Brunches there, so don't forget to check that out.