October 3 Council Meeting

The council meeting on October 3 took about 50 minutes. We were missing CMs Proctor and Neely, so we had the minimum to meet a quorum.

The council agreed to pay $300 towards repair of a driveway approach on Bryan Ave, due to issues with the street.

The council approved payment for some construction in our housing improvement program.

I officially proclaimed Tuesday, October 30 as Beggar's Night in Roland.

I appointed Adam Wilkinson to the Planning and Zoning Board. Thanks to Adam for doing that. Always helps to get volunteers for such jobs in city government.

The longest portion of the meeting was discussing sump pump inspections. We got the report from MSA, who did the work for us. 74% passed. 6% were unavailable at the scheduled time of inspection. 20% failed, or potentially failed. That 20% is 79 properties. We are highly confident that most of them have a legal connection however.

When the pipe from the pump leaves the sump, and goes directly into a wall, there is no immediate visual way to determine where that pipe goes. We know that all or portions of streets such as Samson, Arthur, Logan, and Ryan Circle have sump collector lines near the street. And that is likely where it goes. To make 100% certain, dye tests will still need to be done at those homes. The council is still deciding whether to have the expense of dye tests on those properties where there is a high confidence of sumps going to collector lines. So more to come on that.