Oct 17 Council Meeting

Not much on the agenda. All council members were there except CM Proctor. No word yet on the resurfacing of the north block of Logan. It will get done when Manatts gets done with some project they have going on, on Hiway 30. No particular update on sump inspections. We still have a few homes that need inspections.

We had a brief discussion regarding a potential contract with JCG regarding hiring them for easement negotiations along the proposed route for the trunk sewer line. They were unavailable to be at the meeting, and the council had some questions, so no further actions were taken.

I thought we were done, but then we got into another circuitous discussion about the trunk line sewer project.

We also had our city attorney at the meeting for a discussion around Freedom of Information Requests to the city. We do not have a policy regarding that. We may wish to adopt one in the future. He showed us one of another small city in Iowa that seems to work well for them. Basically it is to make sure citizens have access to any documents they are interested in, but also that the city doesn't take a financial hit coming up with them, so the requestor would need to pay the standard copy charges, and the labor costs of a city's staff used to search for the documents. So more to come on that.