REGULAR MEETING

 

                The Fairbank City Council met in Regular Session on Monday, October 9, 2006.  Mayor Welsh called the meeting to order at 6:00 P.M.  Members present: Kayser, Mangrich, Frost and Shields.  Absent: Woods.  Also present:  B.J. Sackett, Police Chief; Carter Stevens, City Attorney; Ted Vorwald, Utility Superintendent; Dave Ryan, Assistant Public Works Director and Marlene Strempke, City Clerk.

                Motion by Frost, second by Mangrich to approve the agenda as presented.  Roll call vote—Ayes: Frost, Mangrich, Kayser and Shields.  Nays: None.

                Motion by Kayser, second by Shields to approve the minutes of the September 25^th Regular Meeting.  Roll call vote—Ayes:  Kayser, Shields, Frost and Mangrich.  Nays: None.

                Councilman Woods arrived at 6:04 P.M.

                Motion by Shields, second by Frost to approve the Treasurer’s Report.  Receipts for the month of September were $154,899.51 and disbursements were $143,033.03.  Balance on hand at the close of business on September was $1,352,023.97.  Roll call vote—Ayes: Shields, Frost, Mangrich, Kayser and Woods.  Nays: None.

                The option of getting a fuel card so fuel can be purchased on a 24-hour basis will be investigated further before any decision is made.

                There have been several complaints of dogs running at large in the city.  A dog bit one resident and the police will be serving a notice of abatement on the owner of the dog.  Owners will have to pay the costs of getting a dog back that has been picked up running at large.

                The quarterly budget numbers were reviewed.  As a whole, the budget is pretty much on track for the year.

                Motion by Woods, second by Kayser to pay the bills presented with the following changes and additions—change Butler REC to actual bill received today, $23,046.54, change the Iowa Telecom bill to the actual amount when received and add Paul Niemann Construction for $905.32, Midwest Radar & Equipment for $25.00 and INRCOG for $25.00.Roll call vote—Ayes: Woods, Kayser, Mangrich, Frost and Shields.  Nays: None.

Advance Engineering Corp... 968.66

Alliant Energy.... 15.66

American Public Gas Association.. 275.00

Monkeytown.... 41.66

Aspro.. 396.86

B & K Automotive.. 107.92

Barco Municipal Products, Inc..... 79.90

Bascom-Turner Instruments, Inc... 370.76

Black Hawk Rental.. 385.20

Burmeister 3697.59

Big Wapsie Ag Services.. 193.93

Butler County REC 23046.54

Central Tank Coatings 2800.00

Don’s Truck Sales.... 31.90

Dunkerton Co-op 70.02

Evens Lawn Care & Snow Removal 1030.00

Fairbank Fire Department.. 226.94

Fayette County Tourism.... 60.00

Hawkeye Community College.... 15.00

INRCOG 1157.50

Iowa One Call.... 15.30

Iowa Telecom.. 484.24

Iowa Water Pollution Control Association 45.00

Keystone Laboratories, Inc... 231.00

Kirkwood Community College.. 140.00

Knapp’s Service.... 14.50

Lehmkuhl Oil Co. 1086.15

Midwest Breathing Air L.L.C... 135.50

Modern Building Products.. 565.43

Midwest Municipal Transmission Group.. 399.22

Midstates Power Consulting 195.69

Midwest Radar & Equipment 25.00

Norby’s Farm Fleet 3.93

Oelwein Publishing Company 129.26

Ortivus, Inc... 200.00

O’Reilly Auto Parts 5.99

One Call Systems, Inc. 18.00

Paul Niemann Construction, Co... 905.32

Prairie Road Builders.... 97.50

Pronto Market.. 578.13

Dave Ryan.. 211.76

Spahn & Rose .... 64.47

Roberts, Stevens & Prendergast, P.L.C. 2010.00

Superior Welding Supply Co. 29.20

Marlene Strempke.. 94.50

TeKippe Engineering P.C... 597.90

Tnemec.. 910.80

U.S. Treasury 3835.60

Van Meter Industrial, Inc. 1535.08

Ted Vorwald.. 132.16

Grainger.. 196.38

Wesco.. 589.43

Rick Wierck.. 425.00

Woods Construction, Inc... 345.00

Wensco Sign Supply.. 106.16

X-treme Graph-X.. 100.00

Kenneth Franck.. 200.00

Greig Burggraf.. 200.00

William E. Ross.. 200.00

City of Fairbank 4787.65

Clayton Energy Corporation 4906.55

City of Fairbank.. 206.50

IAMU.. 150.00

Fairbank Postmaster 96.00

City of Fairbank.... 31.15

Alliant Energy 2644.20

United Healthcare 3205.18

Delta Dental.. 193.61

US Cellular.. 159.02

Operation Threshold 431.00

Fairbank Softball League.. 121.50

Creative Impact.... 53.50

Data Technologies, Inc.. 170.00

City of Fairbank.. 206.50

Clayton Energy Corporation 2627.06

Fairbank State Bank 3629.27

IPERS 1742.19

Treasurer-State of Iowa 1747.00

Treasurer-State of Iowa 2634.40

Payroll Claims 10715.42

The Library Board approved the following bills on October 4, 2006:

Fairbank Public Library.... 25.00

TRACES.. 175.00

IOS Office Systems.. 175.45

Baker & Taylor.. 333.12

Book Look.. 114.93

Golden Horse Books.... 25.07

Karen Tiedt.... 81.56

Birds & Blooms Extra.... 19.98

Payroll Claims 1159.42

 

                Motion by Mangrich, second by Woods to adjourn at 6:56 P.M.  Roll call vote—Ayes:

Mangrich, Woods, Shields, Frost and Shields.  Nays: None.

 

 

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                                                                                 Maurice Welsh, Mayor

 

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Marlene Strempke, City Clerk