Beloit City Council
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
By Terry Bailey
The Beloit City Council conducted their regular meeting on Tuesday evening, April 5. All Councilors were present with the exception of Bob Richards who was absent. City Attorney Katie Schroeder was present. Jay Newton, Interim City Administrator was present and attending his first Beloit City Council meeting.
In the time reserved for Councilor comments, Councilor Bob Petterson said that several people had asked him if it was possible to have the stoplight at Mill and Main Street start blinking red for a 4 way strop at that intersection early in the evening. It is observed that not much traffic goes through that intersection after 6:00 p.m. and that it would be convenient to stop and proceed rather than setting at an intersection with no traffic in sight waiting for the light to change. All Councilors were in agreement with making the change to either a six o’clock or seven o’clock switch to a blinking four way stop signal.
Matt Otte said that each year at this time he begins receiving complaints about the rest rooms at the Cookie Ball field. Responsibility for the rest rooms is a complicated affair. The School District owns the land on which the ballfield is located. The City of Beloit mows the ballfields.
Lloyd Littrell asked about the replacement of the playground equipment at the Westside Park. It was his understanding from the previous City Administrator that progress was being made on replacing the vandalized playground equipment. Lynn Miller, Director of Parks and Recreation, said that there was no insurance on the equipment that was vandalized and that the City Council would need to budget money to purchase replacement equipment. At this point in time, the Council had not acted on a budgetary request.
Jay Newton, interim City Administrator, told the Council he had not been to Beloit previous to his visit with Mayor Naasz for his interview for the position. Both he and his wife were quite impressed with the appearance of the City of Beloit. “It is obvious that many people take great pride in this city,” said Newton.
Newton has been on the job since March 21 and had been meeting individually with the various department heads to gain an understanding of how the city operates. Lynn Miller gave him a guided tour of all the City parks which he felt was very informative.
The Council adopted Ordinance 2180 Designating Main Street as a Main Traffic Way. They then passed Resolution 2016-9 authorizing the Improvement of Main Street as a Main Traffic Way. The ordinance and the resolution were necessary to issue bonds for the East Main Street improvement project.
In formal actions, the Council:
Authorized the purchase of a lawn mower from Carrico Lawn and Garden in the amount of $12,500.
Voted to purchase a new JD5100E tractor from Carrico Implement for the amount of $58,535. This was $500 more than a bid from an out of town vendor but the Councilors figured buying from a home town vendor made good sense and the service should be better than from purchasing it out of town.
Voted to accept the Dane Hansen grant to assist in purchasing Automatic External Defibrillators. The Hansen grant money of $8,300 coupled with $20,050 of City money will allow the purchase of 24 defibrillators for emergency purposes.
Approved the expenditure of $9,948 to purchase 100 LED Super Light street lights.
Voted to purchase one Stalker Radar unit for the City police department. Chief Elam had requested three new units but had found a source to have the old ones repaired so only one unit needs replaced. The cost of the outright purchase of the Radar unit is $2,295.
Approved two bids for the CDBG Housing Rehabilitation. One was for Mitre Box Construction for property located at 418 North Walnut in the amount of $14,188. The second went to Cote Construction for property located at 615 West Third in the amount of $15,755.
Accepted a letter of understanding from the Austin Peters Group for conducting a search for a full time City Administrator and to review and update the Beloit City policy book.
Agreed to a Fire Protection Contract with Errick and Kristy Clark for their residence located at 1620 Asherville Road.
Final action of the evening was to approve a Special Events License for the 2016 season of the Solomon Valley Raceway.
The meeting was then adjourned.
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