City of Russell
Special Council Meeting
May 10, 2017, at 6 p.m.
Duane called the meeting to order at 6:07 p.m. Chris Feehan, Terry Newcomb, and Casey
DeHoedt were in attendance. Corey Paige
and Jay Pierschbacher were not present.
Jim Larrington was present at the meeting.
Duane stated that he was to get paperwork to Ellen Walker at
USDA regarding the sewer and state revolving funds to assist in our sewer
project.
In regards to water meter project funding, the Council
discussed using local option sales tax funds and using funds from the garbage
fund. The Council also looked at funds
that could be left in the water fund at the end of this fiscal year.
Chris Feehan made a motion to use funds from the garbage
account to buy water meters and Terry seconded
it. The Council was informed by the
state auditor that a resolution must be passed to declare a surplus in garbage
and put in the resolution how the surplus figure was determined and whether or
not the money will be paid back to the garbage fund.
The Council decided to buy all new water meters contingent
on finding out when we can amend the next years FY17-18 budget and when funds
can be transferred for the project.
Streets-L.L. Pelling can start the end of June resurfacing
our streets and the city will pay them next fiscal year.
Jim got bids for work to be done on a sink hole at Smith
Street. The Council decided to let the
bid to Kent Loynachan. Casey made a
motion to repair two sink holes-Smith Street and West Street and Terry seconded
the motion. The motion carried
unanimously
Council discussed giving Shawn Davison a deadline of June 30
for the tree removal project. Chris made
a motion to inform Shawn of this deadline and Casey seconded it. The motion carried unanimously.
Casey made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:07 p.m. and
Terry seconded it. Motion passed unanimously
3-0. The next regular council meeting will be on June 5th at 7 p.m.
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Mayor, Duane Bedford
City Clerk, Kris
Wilkins
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