April 2010

Beacon City Council Agenda

Tuesday – April 6, 2010. 7:00pm

Call to order: Mayor Maxwell called the meeting to order.

General Business

  1. Minutes of the March 4 meeting were reviewed by the council.
  2. Treasurer’s Report
  3. Claims
  4. Sewer: Kevin Bork
  5. Water Reports:
    1. Elwood Hanna
    2. Shirley Mitrisin
    3. Justin Scholtus.
  6. Hall rentals

Old Business:

  1. Rural Water presentation
  2. Alley vacation hearing second reading
  3. Animal Ordinance second reading
  4. Alley Ordinances revision
  5. Nuisance reports
    1. Dannels property clean up
  6. IDOT data on Beacon Streets
  7. Grants for road paving
  8. Annexation
  9. City Maps

New Business:

  1. Stephen Memorial Animal Shelter- We didn’t take in any strays from Beacon in March.  On March 3, 2010 Mickie McBride was contacted regarding her pet not having sufficient water or food.
  2. Sheriff report
  3. Paper delivery of meeting information versus web page. Could put agenda, minutes, ordinances. City directory and connect to other sites. Examples: teammahaska.org; www.legis.state.ia.us/IowaLaw.html (Iowa Code); http://www.iowa.org/county/mahaska/ (Iowa Information Network. Their e-mail is webmaster@iowa.net); beacon.communitywebsites.com (To help build website)
  4. Resident request regarding City’s lien against his property
  5. Linda, of Mahaska County Highway Dept., contacted clerk re: date for city clean-up. They are looking to make the date the same every year so they don’t have to figure this out every year.  Tentatively, she has put us for the first Monday in June as that seems to be about the time we do it.  EMC Insurance Company Audit for Workers Compensation purposes.
  6. Bid for mowing received from Century Lawn
  7. Received for Information
    1. Budget Terms: Definition of excise tax is something each customer pays to utilities to use their product. Then Beacon receives a cut for having the pipes, wires, etc. here on their property.
    2. MediaCom has added Directory Assistance, Voicemail, Digital Plus Pkg, HBO ala carte and Digital Video Recorder Services. Details are posted at city hall.
    3. Resume received.

Business from the Floor:

Next council meeting May 4, 2010 at 7:00pm

Adjournment