Russell
News April 2, 2019
Calendar
Monday,
April 1, 7 p.m. Russell City Council meeting
Tuesday, April 2,
6:30 p.m. American Legion/Auxiliary resumes
Wednesday, April 3,
6:30 p.m. Night Owls of Faith United Methodist Church, Ronda Harrison is the hostess and Zelda Boldt has the lesson
Saturday, April 6, 1:30 p.m. Russell Sportsmen's Club Range work day
Sunday, April
7, 2:00 p.m. Russell Sportsmen's Club
Trap Shoot
Saturday, April 13, Easter Egg Hunt, Ages 0-4, 10
a.m. Community Center, , Ages 5-8, 10 a.m. Community Center, Ages 9-13,
Bandstand, Shaw St. closed, Call 641-931-6008 or 641-203-1107 or Facebook for
more information and changes due to weather.
Saturday,
April 13, 4:30-7 p.m. Russell Vol. Fire Department Annual Ham Supper, Russell
Community Center, home delivery available, cell 203-2039
Monday, April
15, 7p.m. Russell Sportsmen's Club Trap shoot
Thursday, April 18,
1:15 p.m. Russell News meeting at
the Museum-everyone welcome
Thursday, April 18,
6 p.m. Russell Museum/Library Board meeting
Friday, April 19, Good
Friday service at 6 p.m. Faith United
Methodist Church
Friday, April 19 & Monday
April 22, Cindy out of the City Hall office
Easter Sunday, April 21st Russell First Baptist
Church Breakfast 9:00 a.m. (no charge) Easter Service 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. All
are invited to attend.
Sunday April 28,
2 p.m. Russell Sportsmen's Club .22 & center-fire rifle
Saturday, May 18 Clean-up Day, more information
later.
Russell
Council Mini-Minutes
March 4, 2019
Present:
Mayor Duane Bedford, Council Members: Terry Newcomb, Chris Feehan, and Casey
DeHoedt. Also Sheriff Brett Tharp, City
Maintenance Supervisor Jim Larrington and City Clerk, Cindy Smith.
Fire
Department is still working on getting the siren repaired. Chief Brian Beaty
has submitted requests for grants.
Jim
Larrington is planning on replacing/repairing curb boxes in the spring and he
is wanting to get the remainder of the new radio read meters in place as
weather will allow.
We will need to be installing culverts and
reworking some roads to repair damage done. Jim stated that he is also in the
process of looking at two road graders the county is selling and will be test
driving them to determine which one will work the best for our needs.
The City
currently does have a snow ordinance, 9-2.06 regarding the removal of ice/snow
accumulation but does not really include the removal of
vehicles after an allotted time. This ordinance
will be amended for next winter that will include the right
to tow vehicles that are in the right of way for plowing. This towing will also
include that the owner of the vehicles will be responsible to pay to have the
vehicles taken out of holding which will include but not be limited to towing
and holding area. We are also going to be adding penalties to several
ordinances in regards to fencing, animal control and
mowing of ditches.
The DOT has
a Stop sign replacement program that we are signing up for, each sign must have
a number and a reason for the sign. Jim and Duane have approximately 35+ signs
that either need replaced or have gone missing that need replaced.
Clean up day
has been set for May 18 th . Further details on this day will be posted as to
what we can take and cost thereof.
Ron Bingham
has submitted a new sign layout for the Community Building. A design was chosen
and the cost will be $240.00 for a 4’ x 8’ sign. This will be completed by Ron
Bingham.
Council
again discussed and approved the
agreement between the City and the Sheriff’s department and it was agreed that
we will contract with the Sheriff’s department for fiscal year 2019/2020. Also
discussed was having a person in authority to enforce City ordinances. This
will be at approximately 30 hours per week.
Special Council
Minutes
March 19, 2019
Present:
Duane Bedford, Chris Feehan, Casey DeHoedt, Terry Newcomb, and City Clerk Cindy
Smith. Also present was Tyler Jeffrey and his family.
Tyler Jeffrey took the Oath of Office
for Police Officer for the City of Russell. His main responsibility will be to
enforce various City Ordinances. After Tyler took his oath, he and his family
left the meeting.
Mayor
Bedford stated that the City has been approved for a $1,500.00 grant from South
Central Iowa Community Foundation for upgrades to the basketball court at the
Community Center Park and
upgrades to the volley ball court.
Discuss ion
on Easter Egg Hunt information is found in the calendar. Shaw Street will be
closed
for one hour that morning, April 13.
Cindy Smith
stated that the City office will be closed on Friday April 19th and
Monday April
22nd as she
will be out of town those days.
City of Russell
Special Council
Meeting
March 25, 2019
Present:
Mayor: Duane Bedford, Council members: Chris Feehan, Casey DeHoedt, Terry
Newcomb, and City Clerk: Cindy Smith
The
meeting was for budget review and approval. The budget was
reviewed and approved.
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