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MINUTES
CLERICAL COMMITTEE
City Council Chambers @ Historic Depot
October 10, 2000 - 6:30 p.m.
Members Present: Dave Nidiffer, Kevin Meade, Robert Molleck, Larry Sarff
Others Present: Jim Elson, Jim May, Clif OBrien, Steve White, Chief Elam, Chief
Stanko, Gary Orwig, Linda Caudle, George Spahn, Pat Wright, John Froehling, Matthew
Leaf
Finance Committee
Larry Sarff, Chairman
Bills were reviewed and comments made by Chairman Sarff Motion was made by
Alderman Molleck, seconded by Alderman Nidiffer to send the bills to council for action.
Voice vote, motion carried.
As requested, Rick Semonis of Semonis Consultants provided a written plan for his
consulting services to assist in the City's Employee Benefit Plan. He will review current
plans, discuss cost saving modifications, prepare bid specs, review all proposals and
finalize all benefit changes and communicate those changes with employees. His fee is
$3,000 plus mileage. He would begin in January with completion May 1~`. Motion was
made by Alderman Nidiffer, seconded by Alderman Meade to hire Rick Semonis
Consultants to review the City's Health Insurance coverage. Under discussion, Alderman
Meade added that there are very few companies that do this and the other azea company
was used last time. Their service was unsatisfactory. Voice vote, motion carried.
Chief Stanko distributed a written request to consider acquisition of a new rescue engine
to replace the reserve engine that is nearly 25 years old. Chief Stanko would like to move
to the rescue engine concept. He recommends a seven yeaz lease term. A motion was
made by Alderman Meade, seconded by Alderman Molleck to allow Chief Stanko to seek
bids both to purchase and to lease an apparatus and include options for financing locally
and bring back to council. Voice vote, motion carved.
Chief Elam presented copies of the intergovernmental agreement between the City and
the Fulton County Emergency Telephone Systems Boazd concerning the mobile data
terminals. This agreement was already reviewed by the City attorney. This agreement is
necessary due to the Fulton County Chief of Police grant approval in the excess of
$300,000 to install a mobile data terminal in all of the police units serving Fulton County.
A motion was made by Alderman Molleck, seconded by Alderman Meade to send this
agreement on to Council for action. Voice vote, motion carried.
A $750 bill from Aspec Environmental Testing was brought before committee. This
service was ordered by Captain Cunningham of the Salvation Army. Captain
Cunningham was present and stated that the Salvation Army will pay this bill and it was
sent in error to the City. No action required.
The committee discussed the asbestos removal at the Comfort Station. A Motion was
made by Alderman Meade, seconded by Alderman Nidiffer to lower the minimum bid for
the comfort station by $2200 to allow for the cost of asbestos removal and to make that
announcement the day of the auction. Voice vote, motion carried.
Clif O'Brien requested permission to replace the radiator in a dump truck at a cost of
$980 from David Gill. This was the lowest quote received. Motion was made by
Alderman Molleck, seconded by Alderman Meade to authorize this purchase. Voice
vote, motion carried.
Having no other business to discuss, the Finance Committee adjourned.
Negotiations, Grievance & Personnel Committee
Kevin Meade, Chairman
Chairman Meade asked that the dispatching personnel of the police department be
handled in executive session.
There was no other business for discussion and the committee adjourned.
Community & Industrial Development Committee
Robert Molleck, Chairman
Discussion was held on the usability of the water tower at the International Harvester
Site. Harlan Banister stated that this was looked at before and was found to have been
used for heat treat and it was not worth cleaning out because of the expense involved.
Steve White said it would cost to have it inspected by an engineer. Clif O'Brien
suggested talking with Clark Wilson to see if it has already been looked into before Steve
has it inspected.
No other business was discussed and the committee adjourned.
Legal & Ordinance Committee
David Nidiffer, Chairman
Ed Huggins who asked to be on the agenda did not appear at the meeting, therefore the
first item was removed from the agenda.
Discussion was held on selecting an auctioneer for the auction of the Comfort Station.
Linda said that Don Wolf has talked to her and Jim Snider wondering why he hadn't been
asked to do the auction. Jim Elson will contact Donald Wolf about doing the upcoming
auction.
Mr. & Mrs. Dortch of Canton attended the meeting and asked to address a neighborhood
parking problem that continues to exist with the rezoning of a residential property to a
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business property which now houses the Prairie Schooner. They state that the Prairie
Schooner is utilizing both floors of the house and does not provide the correct amount of
off street parking for the amount of square footage of sales space in their business. They
also stated that two of the parking spaces are used by employees, not customers. They
said that parking blocks the sidewalk. Chief Elam agreed that there is definitely a
problem in that area. The Dortches suggested making one side of the street for residential
parking only. They stated that they have had visitors get their cars towed from the street
because the owner of the Prairie Schooner called the police. City Attorney Jim Elson
said that the Library Board has also addressed the parking problem that exists with the
new business. Chief Elam said he will get with Clark Wilson regarding the violation of
the zoning requirements.
A motion was made by Alderman, seconded by Alderman to enter into executive session
for the purpose of the sale of land and for a dispatcher in the Police Department. Roll
call vote. Ayes: Aldermen May, Meade, Nidiffer, Sarff, Molleck. Motion unanimous.
No other business was discussed in open session and the committee adjourned.
Recorded by Linda Caudle