06.08.09
June Regular City Council Meeting
By Peggy Schlichter
A motion was made and passed to renewal all of the annual beer, wine, liquor and cigarette permits.
The resolutions for the new city hall, library and police station were passed.
Mr. Foy was not available to discuss the planning & zoning recommendations for the truck routes. The council discussed this issue briefly and decided to take no action until Mr. Foy was present.
A motion was made and passed to spend $65k for a new fire truck.
Payment #1 for $584,894.86 was approved for Henningsen Construction for the 2008 Street Project.
The council approved the resolution to authorize the Adair County Landfill to issue bonds.
The city wide clean up netted 81 items netting 8,351 lbs of washers, dryers, refrigerators and stoves.
Robert requested and recieved approval for a total of 50 additional hours to cover the additional patrol work required for Good Egg Days.
Mr. Ashour recommended a 4% pay raise for the remaining city employees (street, sewer and police personnel). The council approved the 4% raise for all city employees except Mr. Airhart. Mr. Crawford’s motion was that Mr. Airhart’s pay raise be determined at the next council meeting after a possible closed session performance review.
The council passed the $4.590 million bond resolution. This resolution converts all the city’s loans from short term to long term covering all the current construction projects.
There was no new business discussed.
The following Old Business was discussed.
Cornerstone Construction raised an objection to the council that their bid was actually lower than Septagon based on how two of the contract “add ons” were worded. The architect explained to the council that the objection raised was based on an inaccurate understanding of a bid item by Cornerstone and that the bid was correctly awarded to the lowest bidder, Septagon.
The mayor raised a question about the new home based sign business on 2nd Street wanting to know if it is allowed under the city code. Mr. Bump informed the council that home based businesses were allowed under the code as long as they have a low impact on the area.
Mr. Sherman requested a monthly update on all the construction projects currently ongoing in town telling them what is happening with each project.
Mr. Airhart informed the council that he had contacted the DOT about the road on each side of the interstate bridge. DOT is only responsible for the bridge deck and 20 feet of each side of the deck. The problem areas are outside of their responsibility and belong to the city for maintenance. Mr. Airhart asked about getting some of the stimulus money and he was given a name and number for the DOT Atlantic Office. The council asked Mr. Airhart to contact the Atlantic Office and inquire about funding assistance.
The mayor asked about the speed zone needed for the new high school. There was some discussion about the different options available but no one had any current information from the school on the results of their traffic study and engineers recommendations. Mr. Ashour is to get with the school and have the information for the next meeting.
Anonymous said,
June 9, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Everybody knows where the truck routes are I had this problem before and I will bitch again I will be watching
Anonymous said,
June 10, 2009 at 9:18 pm
WHAT?! the library is getting newly built? what are they doing with the carnegie?!
thevoicesofstuart said,
June 10, 2009 at 11:03 pm
9:18 pm – the library is being demolished for the new building. this discussion and decision was made more than a year ago when the city decided to build new.
thevoicesofstuart said,
June 10, 2009 at 11:10 pm
FYI – do not start with the “what about bob” comments. there was no other information discussed at the council meeting other than what i put in the post. if anyone has specific information they wish to address i suggest you contact neal crawford since he is the one who raised the issue.
thevoicesofstuart said,
June 10, 2009 at 11:16 pm
city health insurance info – the utility board informed the council at the joint meeting last week that the premium rates remain the same for this year. the council held no discussion on employee contributions to the premium.
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Anonymous said,
June 13, 2009 at 6:57 am
uhm….isn’t the new high school outside the city limits? shouldn’t the city be checking with the county about speed limits?
thevoicesofstuart said,
June 13, 2009 at 10:48 pm
6:57 am – it is the council’s understanding that the school’s engineer will have done a traffic study that determines the needs at the entrance/exit sites for the new high school. based on that assessment the county will have to address the needs. the city will share some responsibility based on the 28E agreement with the counties if i remember correctly.
H. Christian said,
June 14, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Does anyone have any say about Diamond Head Lake’s roads? this is kind of random but I was wondering if the Stuart Council or something could possibly persuade the imbeciles on the LBMC board to fix the roads. I know it’s a private lake but I don’t know much about these kind of things.
Anonymous said,
June 14, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I feel like every time I go out there a tire will blow or something will break on my truck the roads out there are so bad and I drive slow. I don’t know how much the fees are to live out there but I know they aren’t cheap someone out there needs to speak up because the roads are horrible.
Anonymous said,
June 16, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I was told the reason they aren’t doing anything with the roads at Diamonhead is because they are getting ready to put sewer lines in and why fix the roads until that is done.
Anonymous said,
June 17, 2009 at 7:44 am
I heard that they were blaming the roads on Xenia when they ran water out there and were wanting Xenia to put up some money to fix the roads.
Anonymous said,
June 17, 2009 at 11:16 am
Xenia has no money to fix the roads!
Anonymous said,
June 17, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Why can’t the county use some road tax and fix them. Dexter might be able to help too.
Anonymous said,
June 18, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Diamondhead is its own operation, private lake with a board and all…no help from any towns with their expenses. Xenia was probably one of the best things to happen out there, at least everyone that hooked in is guaranteed safe water.
Anonymous said,
June 20, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I think Dexter might be able to help and the county since the exit comes out of their side of the town. The county joins its roads up to it. Call the Dexter city manager and see or the supervisors.