CITY
OF POMEROY |
REGULAR
CITY COUNCIL MEETING |
MINUTES |
December
16, 2009 |
| Council
meeting
called to order at 7:00 P.M. by Mayor Gene Becker |
| Roll
Call: C. Loots, C. Meyer, S Juilfs, R Bachman and D DeVore.
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| MAYOR
AND COUNCIL COMMENTS: R
Bachman informed the Council of a complaint he received about the
snow removal by the City Employees. The Council asked if the sidewalks
in front of the Mall could be cleaned off. |
| APPROVAL
OF AGENDA: C Meyer made a motion, seconded by C Loots, to
approve the agenda. Roll call: Ayes R. Bachman, C. Meyer, C. Loots,
D DeVore and S Juilfs. Motion carried. Corrections to the November
10th minutes, D DeVore asked if anyone knew why the Fire Dept. had
the trucks out on Saturday night Nov. 7th; a motion was made by C
Meyer, seconded by R Bachman to approve the Tobacco Permit at the
Pomeroy Area Market. Roll call: Ayes R. Bachman, D DeVore, C. Meyer,
C. Loots, S Juilfs. Motion carried. |
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CONSENT
AGENDA: R
Bachman made a motion, seconded by S Juilfs, to approve the consent
agenda: Financials, Minutes, Requests, Reports, and Bill List. Roll
call: Ayes R. Bachman, D DeVore, C. Meyer, C. Loots, S Juilfs, Motion
carried.
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COMMITTEE
REPORTS:
Library: C Meyer made a motion, seconded by C Loots,
to approve Sharon DeVore as a new Library Board member. Roll call:
Ayes R. Bachman, D DeVore, C. Meyer, C. Loots, S Juilfs. Motion carried.
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| Nuisance
Abatement Hearing: Mayor Becker and Council Member DeVore
will be meeting with Steve Johnson next week due to Mr. Johnson being
unable to attend the Council meeting. |
| Water/Sewer/Streets:
John Devitt was on hand to discuss the Sewer Lagoon project. He informed
the Council of a mistake he made on last month’s final pay request
so the Council will have to reapprove the final pay request and void
the previous months. Motion was made by C Meyer, seconded by R Bachman
to correct the motion made last month for the payment to R & R
Excavating for $76,319.13 to $55,555.93, and approve payables for
Kuehl and Payer for $671.20 and Midas for $1,025.00. Roll call: Ayes
R. Bachman, D DeVore, C. Meyer, C. Loots, S Juilfs, Motion carried.
Mayor Becker, R Bachman and D DeVore are to meet at the maintenance
shed Wednesday Dec. 23 to plan where to place the electricity in the
building so the City can ask for bids for the project. The Council
asked that the street project be placed on next month’s agenda
so that City Hall may contact possible engineers. The City Clerk asked
what steps should be taken to shut off a delinquent customer who’s
shut off is located underneath their driveway. The Council agreed
that the City should first contact the customer informing them that
if bill is not paid for the City will rip up the drive way at the
owner’s expense. |
| Fire
Dept: Acting Chief Rosa announced the results of their election
of officers from the Nov 16th Fire Dept. meeting. C Meyer made a motion
seconded by C Loots to approve officers Chief Dan Rosa, Asst. Chief
Bruce Ewing, Captain Jeremy Norris, Lieutenant Doug Hepperle and Sec/Tres
Merissa Ewing. Roll Call. Ayes: C Loots and C Meyer. Nays: S Juilfs,
D DeVore and R Bachman. Motion denied. The Council asked Chief Rosa
if the majority of the members where present for the vote. Chief Rosa
said the secretary would have the names of the members present and
the Council asked if they would be able to have more members at the
December meeting to take another vote and report back to the Council
at the January meeting. |
| Police:
Tony Hinners was present to address the shooting of his dog within
City limits. Police Chief Gerdes investigate the incident and spoke
with the County Attorney; it was determined to be a civil matter.
A resident complained about a loose dog and chickens at 703 S Ontario
St. The Council asked that “No Parking Farm to Market”
signs be placed on Harrison Street. The City Clerk asked if the Slow
Children Playing sign at 304 S. Seneca St. could be removed because
it is in the way of snow removal and no children live on that block.
Council asked that Kenny Rhea pull the sign out. |
| Cemetery:
C Loots asked the Council to look into the Iowa Code regarding how
Perpetual Cemetery Funds may be spent and consider fixing old or broken
stones next summer. City Hall is to look into the statute of limitations
on selling a cemetery plot that’s hasn’t been used since
1941. C Loots asked if the volunteer group could renovate the gazebo
park, south of the Historical Society, by applying for a Calhoun County
Community Grant and money from the can redemption. C Loots will be
back in the summer with more definitive plans for the park. |
| City
Hall: A motion was made by C Meyer, seconded by D DeVore,
to approve Byron’s liquor license. Roll call: Ayes R. Bachman,
D DeVore, C. Meyer, C. Loots, S Juilfs, Motion carried. The City Clerk
informed the Council that the deadline to the Energy Efficiency &
Conservation Block Grant program was December 14th. C Loots asked
the Council to be thinking of ideas for the Calhoun Co. Community
Foundation matching grant program for January’s meeting. |
| Ordinance:
#207 Amending Chapter 3 Utilities – Refuse Collection
D DeVore made a motion seconded by C Loots to have the first reading
of Ordinance #207. Roll call: Ayes R. Bachman, D DeVore, C. Meyer,
C. Loots, S Juilfs, Motion carried. C Meyer read Ordinance #207. A
motion was made by C Loots, seconded by D DeVore, to approve the first
reading of Ordinance #207. Roll call: Ayes: D DeVore, C. Loots and
S Juilfs. Nays: C. Meyer and R. Bachman. First reading of Ordinance
#207 passed on December 16th, 2009. |
ADJOURNMENT
8:52 p.m.
___________________________ Gene Becker Mayor
___________________________ Sarah
Juilfs City Clerk
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