Feb 19 Council meeting

Had everybody at the meeting--eventually, with one late arriver. No Roland citizens in the gallery for this meeting.

The council authorized me to sign the contract with the Sheriff's Dept, for our city's police protection. The council passed the first reading of the ordinance change allowing ATVs to be driven on city streets if being used for snow removal.

We had a discussion and tabled for one meeting, a change in the ordinance putting responsibility of a property owner's water line from the current location of at the shutoff, and instead to the curbstop. This will match many other cities rules, and match our current ordinance regarding of ownership of sewer pipes. It appears the council is in favor of it, but wanted to wait until the end of this year's freeze issues are over. Since it takes 3 readings to approve an ordinance, if we start at the next scheduled council meeting, it will be into late April before the ordinance would go into effect.

Finally Veenstra and Kimm engineers were present to discuss the latest on the sewer project, soil borings, and where the line will go. More details are in my previous post. Everything looks to be a go.

We are having a special council meeting on Monday morning to approve a resolution. We needed to have a resolution to indicate our interest in using the state revolving fund monies. It needs to be approved by March 3, which is before our next council meeting. So we are just having a quickie meeting on Monday morning at 8. That should be a 2 minute meeting. Just an administrative thing we need to do.