REGULAR MEETING
The Fairbank City Council met in Regular Session on Monday, April 12, 2004. Mayor Welsh called the meeting to order at 6:00 P.M. Members present: Plaster, Frost, Kayser and Woods. Absent: Suckow. Also present: Rick Deitrick, Acting Police Chief; Ted Vorwald, Utility Superintendent; Dave Ryan, Assistant Public Works Director; Jim Peters, City Attorney and Marlene Strempke, City Clerk.
Motion by Kayser, second by Plaster to amend the agenda to include DOT agreement to widen Bill Wolfgram’s driveway. Roll call vote-Ayes: Kayser, Plaster, Frost and Woods. Nays: None.
Motion by Woods, second by Frost to approve the agenda as amended. Roll call vote-Ayes: Woods, Frost, Plaster and Kayser. Nays: None.
Motion by Kayser, second by Plaster to approve the minutes of the March 8th and 22nd Regular Meetings. Roll call vote-Ayes: Kayser, Plaster, Frost and Woods. Nays: None.
Motion by Woods, second by Frost to approve the Treasurer’s Report. March receipts totaled $221,741.02 and disbursements were $189,003.24. Balance on hand at the close of business on March 31, 2004 was $1,208,204.14. Roll call vote-Ayes: Woods, Frost, Plaster and Kayser. Nays: None.
Motion by Kayser, second by Woods to set the pay rate for on-call hours for the police department at $3.00 per hour. The officer on-call can not be more than 12 miles from the city limits while on call and if they are called out they will be paid a minimum of two hours at their regular pay rate. Roll call vote-Ayes; Kayser, Woods, Frost and Plaster. Nays: None.
Motion by Kayser, second by Frost to hire Stephen Becker, to work approximately ten hours a week for the next couple of months until a permanent officer is found, at a rate of $11.25 per hour. Roll call vote-Ayes: Kayser, Frost, Woods and Plaster. Nays: None.
The police department is contacting residents with junk on the property asking them to clean it up. Abatements are being given and additional people will be contacted.
Attorney Peters will set up a conference call with Bob Joesten to get information together on extending the TIF area to include the area just annexed in the northeast section of town.
The street allowing a second access to Knollridge Third Addition will be included in the FY 2006 city budget.
Pat Miller was present to discuss the rock washing out along Grove Street and into his driveway. Everyone realizes the problem exists and will look at correcting it in the next budget year.
Motion by Kayser, second by Plaster to approve the contract with TeKippe Engineering PC for mapping the utilities and streets. Roll call vote-Ayes: Kayser, Plaster, Frost and Woods. Nays: None.
Motion by Frost, second by Woods to grant the request of the Fayette County Extension Service to use the ball park on Thursday, June 17 and Monday, June 21 for Day Camp activities. Roll call vote-Ayes: Frost, Woods, Kayser and Plaster. Nays: None.
Motion by Kayser, second by Woods that no further payments will be made to Pool Construction, Inc. or USAquatics until a full accounting of lien waivers, supplies, payments and receipts is made. Attorney will contact the parties involved to set up a meeting. Roll call vote-Ayes: Kayser, Woods, Frost and Plaster. Nays: None.
Motion by Frost, second by Plaster to charge $25.00 when a door is posted due to non-payment of utilities. Attorney Peters is to draw up an ordinance to be acted upon at the next council meeting. Roll call vote-Ayes: Frost, Plaster, Kayser and Woods. Nays: None.
Motion by Frost, second by Kayser to pay the bills as presented except for USAquatics and Pool Construction, Inc. and to deny the balance for Fairbank Assisted Living and pay only the amount on the invoice. Roll call vote-Ayes: Frost, Kayser, Woods and Plaster. Nays: None.
Alliant Energy 23856.64
Apex Office Supply 12.36
Barco Municipal Products 165.54
Battery Zone 173.00
Black Hawk Waste Disposal 3482.99
Buchanan County Clerk of Court 17.00
Buchanan County Recorder 57.00
Buchanan County Senior Center 200.00
Burmeister Electric Co. 2284.31
C.J. Cooper & Associates, Inc. 29.00
Costello Diesel Service, Inc 26.65
Covenant Clinic 30.00
Don’s Truck Sales 441.30
Elecrtical Materials Co 78.70
Emblem Enterprises, Inc. 270.00
Energy Economics, Inc. 9.13
Fairbank Community Club 20.00
Fairbank Fire Department 260.00
Fairbank Foods Center 15.81
Fairbank Assisted Living 128058.74
Harry Fowler 84.49
IA Dept of Transportation 11.08
IAMU 3.18
INRCOG 64.08
ICAP 22853.00
Iowa Paint Manufacturing 463.44
Iowa State University 100.00
Iowa Telecom 491.92
Peters Law Office 300.00
Keystone Labs 165.00
Lab Safety Supply, Inc. 138.11
Lehmkuhl Oil & LP Gas Co. 135.39
Manatts, 409.15
Matt Parrott and Sons Co. 332.13
Midwest Breathing Air 348.35
Modern Building Products 613.11
National Waterworks 1308.03
Northern Municipal Dist Group 50.00
Oelwein Commercial Printing 7.00
Oelwein Daily Register 158.49
Operation Threshold 500.00
Pronto Market 394.79
Qwest 37.75
Dave Ryan 57.33
Sadler Electric 1318.50
Stetson Building Products, Inc. 37.00
Solomon Corp 810.00
Marlene Strempke 11.03
TeKippe Engineering 598.42
Tnemec Company, Inc. 5572.49
Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier 105.64
Maurice Welsh 80.01
IA Utilities Board 134.00
Norbert Kleitsch 200.00
Randy Ohrt 200.00
Jon McKowen 52.88
City of Fairbank 605.78
Marian Wenger 200.00
Dana Klink 1.50
Robert Schulmeister 139.84
Claudette Ferrie 184.83
City of Fairbank 3513.78
Fairbank Post Office 18.17
IAMU 32.00
Clayton Energy Corp. 31475.79
Data Technolgies, Inc. 170.00
Fairbank Postmaster 171.00
US Cellular 144.24
Delta Dental 148.97
Clayton Energy Corp. 7415.11
Don’s Truck Sales 514.00
Payroll 10814.98
Treasurer, State of Iowa 5063.94
IPERS 1613.10
Fairbank State Bank 3279.21
The Library Board approved the following bills for payment on April 7, 2004
Baker & Taylor Inc. 507.08
Book Look 124.87
Demco, Inc. 184.50
Publishers Quality Library 12.94
Rite Price Office Supply 8.25
Scholastic Library Publishing 20.65
Upstart 38.25
Beverly DeNeve 108.00
Fairbank Library 25.00
Karen Tiedt 100.10
Payroll 977.89
The budget amendment was discussed at length. The final version will be approved at the next council meeting and the date set for the public hearing.
Motion by Frost, second by Plaster to approve the agreement with the DOT for the replacement and widening at Bill Wolfgram’s driveway. Roll call vote-Ayes: Frost, Plaster, Kayser and Woods. Nays: None.
Motion by Kayser, second by Frost to adjourn at 8:18 P.M. Roll call vote-Ayes: Kayser, Frost, Plaster and Woods. Nays: None.
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Maurice Welsh, Mayor
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Marlene Strempke, City Clerk