HOLSTEIN
CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR
MEETING
MONDAY
APRIL 3, 2006
5:30
PM, CITY HALL
MINUTES
Meeting called to order by
Mayor Mary Gross.
Members of the present were Kofmehl, Ehler, Breyfogle, Lukins. Fell arrived during the meeting.
Consent The Consent Agenda was approved on a
motion by Kofmehl,
Agenda second by Breyfogle.
A. Approval of the minutes from
the May 6, 2006 meeting.
B. Approval of beer permit for
Midwest Deli.
Yea:
all. Motion carried.
Public The public hearing on
development agreement and incentive
Hearings payments with Galva Holstein Ag was
opened. No one appeared for or against the matter.
The public hearing on designation of a commercial
urban renewal area was opened.
Discussion ensued on whether to include the city right of way and 1st
Street abutting the Elevator property in order to capture TIF funds to repair
the storm sewer, which is collapsing, and use for street repair. The urban renewal area property description
was not changed to include any more area, just Elevator property. A letter from the Galva Holstein Community
School was the only comments oral or written received.
The public hearing on the revacting of a portion of
Altoona Street was held. No party
appeared to object the vacation of the property.
Public hearings were closed.
Fell
Ordinance Resolution 2006-8 directing the city clerk
to public notice of
Codification
hearing on adoption of the proposed “Code of Ordinances of
The City of Holstein,
Iowa, 2006” was introduced. A
motion was
made by Fell, seconded by Kofmehl to approve.
Yea:
all. Motion carried.
Bills A motion was made by Breyfogle,
seconded by Fell to approve the bills.
Yea: all.
Motion carried.
Adjourn A motion was made by Lukins, seconded by
Ehler to adjourn.
Yea: all.
Motion carried.
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Mary Gross, Mayor
Attest:
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HOLSTEIN
CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR
MEETING
MONDAY
APRIL 3, 2006
5:30
PM, CITY HALL
Mayor
Report The mayor reported on the
countywide law meeting.
Recreation
Report
Will be sent out to
all households on summer activities.
Travis Beck from
Schleswig was present and talked to t the
council about the walking trail done in Schleswig.
They had used
cement and volunteer labor. The path
8
foot wide and went with the lay of land and they did no not use engineers. Blocks of 10’ were sold for $300.00.
Pool salaries were briefly
discussed. The council agreed that an adult manager was an
improvement.
DPW-sweeper Scott Niemeier present information on 3
used street sweepers
and pricing on a new unit. Scott will
look at a sweeper in Des
Moines and report back.
Well Abandon
Morrell and Vogt and decided to go with
Vogt.
Tower Maint. Information was reviewed from Utility
Service Co. in
Painting regards to painting and inside
maintenance to the water tower. Specs
will be written and bids sought for the next meeting.
Storm Sewer The storm sewer repair in front the
Elevator was discussed. Lukins reported
this to be approximately 310’. The
Elevator will be contacted about pumping out their pit into the storm sewer
rather than running the water across the ground.
Taxi
HDA Jim Cooney was presented and updated the council
the Development Authority activities.
The county development group has submitted bylaws to the state. A countywide needs assessment is in the
planning stages. The need to band
together is necessary to get any grants that might be available.
S. Kiel Sewer Dennis Breyfogle reported that 1 house
on S. Kiel has had sewer back up in their basement 3 times. This happens when the city is backwashing the
filter at the water plant. The manhole
at the corner of Kiel & Cleveland is the problem and this should be fixed
this summer when work is done on sewers.
The city will pay for the three rotor router jobs.
Trees The country club will be planting trees on S.
Kiel going to Char Mac. Is the city
interested at this time in purchasing trees to go along the street? Country Club will plant about 30-40 trees on
the north side of the street.
Adjournment
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Mary
Gross, Mayor
ATTEST
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