REGULAR COUNCIL
MEETING
PRESENT: Mike Batchelder, Tony French, Donna Parish
and Ken Stewart.
ALSO
PRESENT: Jeff Riley, Tim Hersh, Randy and Creed Parsons, Ted Collins, Charles Baskins and Bill Butrick.
PRESIDING: Mayor Janet Tyler.
The
meeting was called to order at
Mike
Batchelder moved to approve the minutes of the last Regular Council Meeting
held
Ken
Stewart moved to approve the bills for the month of October, 2006. Donna Parish 2nd, motion carried
unanimously.
PRESENTATIONS
Randy
Parsons presented a proposal from Rural Water District #6 concerning the
selling of water by the City to the district.
The proposed offer from the district was to pay a $55,000 Connection fee
and a purchase price of $1.00 per thousand gallons. Mr. Parsons asked if the City could respond
to their offer no later than
The City
agreed that they would welcome another meeting with the district and would
exhaust all efforts before giving up on selling water to the district. The Mayor instructed the City Clerk to call
the city engineer and schedule a work session to review the information about
selling water and to also discuss water storage and water lines.
COMMITTEE
REPORTS
City
Attorney Ted Collins updated the Council on meetings he had had with the
College President and the Fire District concerning the location of the
Community Center/Fire Station. He stated
that the location, now owned by the Cemetery Association, northwest of the city
limits had been discussed in detail and that this location could tie in with
the College’s master plan. Ken Stewart
stated that the property west of the grade school is also being considered and
that the Fire District has basically agreed to either location.
Mr.
Stewart also informed the Council that the representative with the Kansas
Department of Commerce & Housing has notified them that an LMI (low to
moderate income) survey must be completed in the rural areas of the fire
district. Stewart went on to say that
the surveys’ will be mailed out to the rural residences within the fire
district and that it will be very important that the survey’s are completed and
returned for the purpose of
possibly receiving the grant.
Mike
Batchelder informed the Council that numerous complaints had been received
about clean-up and trash at the building site on Block 3. Mr. Batchelder told the Council that he had
contacted one of the owners of the duplexes and asked that the trash be picked
up, nails be kept out of the street and the street repaired.
OLD
BUSINESS
Tony
French moved to authorize the City Clerk to establish a Degginger
Park Fund and to schedule the investment of these funds in certificates of
deposit with the Farmers State Bank. Ken
Stewart 2nd, motion carried unanimously.
NEW
BUSINESS
The
Council agreed to discuss additional water storage at a special work session
with the city’s engineer and to tentatively set the date for
CITY
OFFICERS REPORT
Deputy
Tim Hersh reported on Halloween activity.
Ken
Stewart moved to contact Jared Edie to work on police department
computers. Tony French 2nd,
motion carried unanimously.
City
Superintendent Jeff Riley reported on sewer line problems.
Ken Stewart
moved to authorize the rental of a camera by Jeff Riley to inspect problem
sewer lines. Tony French 2nd,
motion carried unanimously.
Ken
Stewart moved to purchase the timer, at a cost of $400, for the operation of
the
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Mayor
City Clerk