June 13 Council Meeting

Been busier than a one-armed paper hanger lately with my real job, and baseball umpiring. So posting here moved down the food chain. So a bit late, but here is a run down of the June 13 council meeting.

We are going to get some work done on the approach to the bridge over Bear Creek on Maple here coming up soon. That will involve some brief traffic disruptions.

We have budgeted for a new truck for the water department. That will be arriving soon. We are also selling our old S-10 on trade in. Got more that we expected, so that is nice.

We finalized the sale of the property near Britson Park. We also moved forward with the sale of the property on Cottonwood. It takes a long time to move property when government is involved. Probably a good thing to avoid corrupt stuff, but still a little painful that it takes so long. Having City Clerk Deneen out of the office doesn't help matters either. We are still missing her knowledge and experience in such matters.

We got a good report back on the structural on the old library building. The council is still moving forward with the possibility of moving City Hall into that building. We are getting the electrical checked next.

We approved a resolution closing Main Street for a street dance on July 2.

And we are still moving forward with the mitigation grant to help us cover improvements to the sewer system, which will hopefully help prevent sewer backups, and the damages that go with that, in high rainfall times.

We had a few other administrative things, but those are the highlights.