March 2019

Beacon City Council Minutes

Tuesday, March 5th, 2019

7:00 p.m.

Call to Order- Mayor Jim Hughes called the meeting to order 7 p.m. City Council members present: Richard Thomas, Ron Kauffman, Danny Fetters, and Dwight Teeter City Council members absent: Cecil Smith

General Business

  1. Review Minutes from February 5th, 2019 Meeting
  2. Treasurer’s Report
  3. Claims Report

Motion made to approve the consent agenda made by Dwight Teeter, seconded by Ron Kauffman.

All members voted in favor, motion approved.

Old Business

  1. Hall Rentals- 2 halls rentals reported for the month of February.
  2. Clean-up & Animal Control- no report presented.
  3. Dustin Hite accepted being our City Attorney.
  4. Committee Reports- No update
  5. City Code Codification- Sterling Codifiers sent a Proposed Table of Contents for the New Code and Ordinance List for council to review. Copies were presented to Council members to review prior to the next council meeting. Table until next month.
  6. Nuisance/Abandoned Property Abatement- The City of Beacon’s Article 9, Chapter 8 ordinance is the same as the City of Oskaloosa’s and the City of New Sharon’s.

New Business

  1. Discussed what a new building would be like, size wise for the storm secure building. Basement would need to be big enough to hold our population of 494.
  2. Discussion was held to purchase a flag pole that is separate from the building and placed on a concrete base, and purchase an Iowa flag to put under the American Flag.                                                                                                                                                           Next Scheduled Council Meeting Thursday, April 4th at 7 p.m.

Adjournment- Motion made to adjourn by Dwight Teeter, seconded by Ron Kauffman. All members voted in favor, motion approved. Meeting adjourned at 7:48 p.m.