So he rarely expresses any opinions, rarely speaks up at city council meetings, and rarely attends his board appointments. Clearly, he's a model City Council person and needs to be re-elected this fall.
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- Approval of the minutes of the August 23, 2011 meeting.
- Approval of the agenda.
- Discussion about proposed precinct reduction from 9 to a possible 3.
-- Because city and school elections still use paper ballots, each town still has the ability to have their city and school elections in their towns.
-- If the state decrees that city and schools elections migrate over to the computerized election now used for primary and general elections, people who do not vote absentee will have to drive to the single vote site within the district, (Nemaha and Lytton to Sac, Wall Lake and Auburn to Lake View, etc.)
- The state allocates $10,000 to the Sac VA.
-- Whatever isn’t spent has to be sent back.
--- The state is very specific about on which the money can be spent, and Peg Dettmann appeared before the board to have them sign off on a letter of understanding regarding the specificity of the spending restrictions.
- The board voted to have the chairman sign the letter of understanding after it is reviewed by each supervisor.
- Call to order.
- County Crew Report
-- Discussion about trees that need sprayed in right of way on 230th street.
- Engineer’s Project Update.
-- New bridge on m35 has rough approaches.
- Highway 20 Update.
-- S curves on 220th street are now open.
-- M50 could be open my September 8, weather permitting.
-- Engineer doesn’t know if M50 and N28 will be open for harvest, but it is very likely that it will be closed during October.
--- Engineer hasn’t heard anything about the contractors starting early.
-- Yankee Ave. is closed for a couple of weeks.
-- Cement plant has been set north of Lytton on N28
--- Paving set to begin in September.
--- The N28 intersection will be complete before they move west.
- Discussion about the cost of asphalt.
- Discussion about no parking signs on county road M54 at the outlet in Lake View, Iowa.
-- There doesn’t seem to be any ordinance establishing that area as a no parking zone.
-- People from the trailer park often put nasty notes on the cars that park there.
-- law enforcement doesn’t enforce no parking because of the lack of ordinance establishing a no parking zone.
-- Engineer proposes prohibiting parking at the outlet bridge.
- Adjournment.
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Sac City, Iowa -Directors of Sac County Veterans Affairs, Peg Dettmann appeared before the Sac County Supervisors to ask that they sign a letter of understanding with the State Veteran’s of Administrative Affairs for an annual allotment of $10,000 that they receive for very specific uses. Those uses are indicated in the following document, which as you can see, the Supervisors directed Chairman Bensley to sign.
At the August 30, 2011 Sac City Water Committee meeting the committee, composed of City Administrator Adam Ledford, Councilors Bill Brenny and Nick Frohardt, and department heads Bob Scheffler and Jim Johnston it was determined that the committee would make a recommendation to the city council to cease adding Fluoride to the Sac City water supply.
Right now, the city is adding .07 parts per million (PPM) to the water supply, the equipment to add that Fluoride to the water supply cost between three and five thousand dollars, Sac City’s water supply already contains between .05 and .06 PPM of fluoride already, and there is no requirement that any fluoride be added. According to City Administrator Adam Ledford, the committee was informed by Water Department Head Jim Johnston that the equipment to add Fluoride to the water supply needs to be replaced.
According to Ledford, the idea to discontinue adding Fluoride to the water supply would save the city a “couple of thousand” dollars per year in chemical costs, and between seven and eleven thousand dollars for the cost to replace the equipment that adds it to the water supply.
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Sac City, Iowa - Tonight’s Sac City Planning and Zoning meeting can be summed up in one word: Pointless. In one hour and six minutes, the Sac City Planning and Zoning board, led by Shirley Phillips decided to do one single thing. Take legal action against Willy Osborne at the end of November, 2011 if he doesn’t get a roof put on the property of the building across from the courthouse on State street. (They didn't know the address.)
The rest of the meeting was essentially one long bitch session aimed at the city council and the fact that when members of the planning and zoning board recommend that the city tear a building down, it doesn’t get done. The funny thing is, for the last two years the Sac City council has given the P & Z board money to tear houses down and has waited patiently for recommendations. Recommendations that have never come.
It gets even funnier when you consider that the money that was budgeted for tearing houses down in the general fund goes away at the end of the fiscal year unless a Trust and Agency fund is created, which the Planning and Zoning board has failed to do.
Remember how I said the meeting was pointless? At this point you are probably saying to yourself, “but what about that whole ‘legal action against the guy with the roof’ thing? Surely that isn’t pointless?” Yeah, here’s how that’s going to go. They will take the guy to court, the judge will boot it and give him 30 or 90 more days, and it will be right back in the laps of the P&Z board in Januaryish 2012.
The next meeting is set for October 3, 2011.
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- Discussion about confusion regarding minutes of previous meetings.
--Approval of minutes of the may, 2011 meeting.
- Discussion about building on State Street.
-Willy Osborne came in 3 or 4 weeks ago and expressed his intentions of putting a roof on the property.
-- He has exceeded the time limit he was provided to complete the work by the city.
-- New time limit of the end of this season has been granted.
-- Was going to have it torn down, but when roof fell in, it became a asbestos hazard and will now cost in the neighborhood of $60,000 to tear down.
-----copy of letter.
Discussion about Sac City Car dealership building.
- Continued discussion about building on State Street.
-- Will take legal action at the end of November, 2011.
- Discussion about the Wenschel Building.
-- Still waiting on quote from the asbestos removal contractor.
-- Tearing down “ourselves” suggested
-- No action taken.
- Presentation from Adam Ledford about nuisance properties.
- Extended discussion about Sac City’s nuisance properties.
- Discussion about trailer behind Sac Sun building.
- Next meeting set for October 3, 2011.
- Adjournment.
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Theresa F. Schaapveld, 81, died suddenly Friday August 19, 2011 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.
Funeral mass will be held 10:30 am Tuesday August 23, 2011 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Nichols. Visitation will be held Monday from 5 until 8 PM at the Henderson-Barker Funeral Home in West Liberty where a rosary will be recited at 7:30 PM. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Nichols.
Theresa was born March 5, 1930 in Sac County, Iowa the daughter of Eugene and Clara Hann. She was a graduate of Coon Valley High School. On September 7, 1963 she was united in marriage to Henry Schaapveld in Auburn. The couple had farmed in the West Liberty area for many years and most recently she was employed at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics in the housekeeping department until her retirement.
She was a member of St. Mary’s Church and she enjoyed gardening, flowers, canning and was an incredible cook.
She is survived by her son Henry Schaapveld of West Liberty and a sister Elizabeth Hann of Auburn. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Henry in 1990 and a brother Joseph Hann.
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Visitation: 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. Sunday, August 28, 2011 at Farber & Otteman Funeral Home Sac City, IA
Mass of Christian Burial: 10:30 A.M. Monday, August 29, 2011 at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Sac City, IA
Vigil Service: 7:00 P.M. Sunday, August 28, 2011 at Farber & Otteman Funeral Home, Sac City, IA
Interment: Private family burial August 29, 2011 at Cedar Cemetery, Lytton, IA
Harlin E. Woehl, age 86, of Sac City, IA, passed away on Friday, August 26, 2011, at the University Of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE. Harlin was born on December 7, 1924, near Lytton in Sac County, the son of William Earl and Mary Ethel (Schenck) Woehl. Following graduation from Lytton High School, Harlin enlisted in the United States Army serving his country during WWII in the 32nd Calvary Reconnaissance Division, also known as the Red Arrow Division, earning the rank of Sergeant on his honorable discharge May 10, 1946. He was awarded the Purple Heart for his valiant service, Good Conduct Medal, American Theater Medal, WWII Victory Medal, and Asiatic Pacific Service Medal.
On November 22, 1949, Harlin was united in marriage to Ceola “Sue” Kraus at Sacred Heart Church in Early. This union was blessed with three daughters: Nici, Karyn, and Barbara. Harlin farmed for many years near Sac City. He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sac City where he served as an usher and lay distributor of communion for many years, was on the Church Board of Directors for 30 years and worked in the Sac City Assessor’s office. He was a member of the Lytton American Legion and Sac City V.F.W., and served on the A.S.C.S. Board for 30 years. He was also a member of the Disabled American Veterans and the Order of Purple Heart Club both of Fort Dodge, IA. Harlin was a loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather and brother, who cherished his family and friends. Harlin and Sue loved to travel and enjoyed spending their winters in Florida.
Viewers,
Due to the fact that I am unhappy with the secrecy with which the government of Sac City conducts itself, I have decided to run for Mayor and correct that.
Because of this, I think you'll agree that it would unethical for me to post any political commentary authored by myself about my opponent between now and the election at this general news website. Commentary that is allowed normally under the open meetings and records laws of Iowa will continue to be posted.
Discussion about the non-mayoral seats is of course, totally game on. Naturally, you are still welcome to increase my traffic by posting vicious anonymous comments about me. :D
A separate public website not related to TSN has been established for my candidacy and is available at Curtis Bloes for Sac City, Iowa Mayor, where I will share my ideas for the future of Sac City and my candid opinions about my opponent(s).
If you are aware of similar websites established by any other city election candidates, share them with me, and I will post them.
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- Call to order
-- missing:
Richard Snyder
Dustin Mead
Bill Tysor
Jim Schelle
- Amendment of agenda
- Approval of agenda
- Approval of the minutes from the July meeting.
- Discussion about specific bills that were added after the packets were mailed out to members
-- Financial statement and fund balances touched on briefly.
- Discussion about the landfill contract on Cell 7C (this is in regards to the photos of the new cell.
-- Specifically discussions about changer orders to the contract.
- Approval of the change orders to the contract for the Cell 7C expansion project. (The new cell) for a total increase of $10,212.37. This still came in roughly $10K less than the next highest bid, and roughly $30K under the engineer’s estimate.
- Approval of pay estimate to the contractor for $76,126.70 for Cell 7C expansion project. This includes the above change order and withholds 5% from the total.
- Approval of certificate of substantial completion for work done on Cell 7C expansion project.
- Discussion about moving well #15 away from the waste cell to conform to DNR rules. This was approved previously.
- Discussion about end of the year bill from the recycling center for $95,858 which is down from $134,000.
- Larry Mahler talks about a pile of waste they are contemplating taking to the landfill. It is 4,000 tons of material that they can use for cover in the cells. A portion of the waste pile will not end up in the landfill.
-- The board approved acceptance of the material from the highway 20 contractor Moyna and to charge $38.00 per ton.
- Mahler asked to change the way that metal is handled. Right now a person collects the metal at no charge. He proposal that was approved was for to leave a roll-off box to put the metal in, for which the contractor, Schau out of Ida Grove, will pay the landfill a percentage of the scrap metal recycling and not charge for the box.
- Approval of propane contract from Star Energy for $1.90 per gallon for 1,500 gallons. (This is higher than was charged in previous years, but is right in line with what is typically being charged this year.
- Discussion about the need for new rock and gravel for construction of a road into the new cell.
- Discussion about adding a new regular item to the agenda entitled “Equipment Repair Update”
- Adjournment.
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"Sac City, Iowa -- The Sac County Conservation Department received a grant of $7,400 from the Gilbert and Barbara Renze Foundation that fully funded the child area of their..."
Odebolt, Iowa - On Tuesday August 23, 2011 Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds visited Odebolt Iowa and spoke to a friendly crowd of 39 people. Following is a video of that event broken down by the questions and statement of those who came to chat with them.
Ann Trimble-Ray
“It’s a wonderful thing for us to have a governor…”
L.t Gov. Kim Reynolds
“We’re getting to see some great countryside…”
“we really feel that we’ve taken a great first step for creation of job growth in Iowa.”
“We wanted to make sure that ongoing state programs have ongoing funding…”
“…Iowa is open for business…”
“…increasing foreign trade…”
Gov. Terry Branstad
“…I’ve met my match…”
“…I want to thank Ann Trimble-Ray…”
“…for the last several years they spent more money than they were taking in…”
“…passed a budget that spends less than we are taking in…”
“…straighten out this situation with schooling…”
”…focus on improving student achievement…”
“…get rid of bad teachers and promote and encourage good teachers…”
“…excited about the success we’ve had in agriculture…”
“…not just commodities…”
“…one of the impediments to business growth is over regulation…”
“…gone beyond what the legislative intent was…”
“…already signed an executive order requiring a jobs impact statement for every new regulation…”
“…We’re going to do a systematic sunset of all administrative rules…”
“…we eliminated taxes for all Iowa military that are deployed…”
“…eliminate unfunded mandates from the state…”
“…to commercial property owners that that tax is going to go down…”
“…we also want to revise the corporate income tax in Iowa to make it easier to start businesses…”
“…no tax on start up businesses…”
“…if you read the Des Moines Register today, and I don’t think anyone in western Iowa gets it…”
“…we have a lot of liberals screaming because they want to do things the old expensive way…”
“…we’re going to find better ways to deliver services…”
“…we need to make sure that our young people are getting the education they need…”
Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds
“…couldn’t have done it without the help of the house in this legislative session as well as the senate…”
QUESTION
You mentioned stealing from the trust fund. Are we on track to replace some of those funds?
FOLLOW UP QUESTION
How about fertilizer tax?
QUESTION
It’s been a long time since we were in China on a foreign trade mission… would you care to elaborate, with the change of the IDC over to the Partnership for Economic Progress… have they laid any rules out yet how it’s going to work and how it’s going to participate, and how size of the groups and things like that?
FOLLOW UP QUESTION
Have you laid out an agenda of what countries you are going to go to yet?
FOLLOW UP QUESTION
Does Iowa still have its office over there then?
FOLLOW UP QUESTION
Is that Jimmy Choo, is he still there?
Is there a chance to get the gas tax raised just a little bit?
STATEMENT/THANK YOU
(From Sac County Supervisor Rick Hecht)
We have seen our purchasing power, especially like with asphalt, tire, equipment replacement, I mean, it’s just dropped dramatically, and I guess I thank you for having an open mind for that.
QUESTION/STATEMENT
My sister lives over in the flood zone on the Missouri, and she’s wondering how they’re going to rebuild these roads and the interstates going to have to be all rebuilt.
QUESTIONS
Terry, would you consider the following two policy options? As an old supply side economist, myself, I would be one of those strongly favoring a voucher system for the educational, putting in place for the money going with the students wherever they would want to go. And would you consider that, number one, and number two, would you consider directing your education department to adopt the Judy hence style of educational regimen in these schools at some level to take the place of some of the politically correct stuff that goes on there now?
QUESTION
With so many different nationalities migrating into Iowa, compared to what it used to be a couple of generations ago, is that a stumbling block for teaching?
STATEMENT
I’d just like to point out another stumbling block for our education is been the no child left behind. It really creates a problem in the classroom for the teachers to be able to engage with the students that are able to learn at the same level, and when you add in those other students that can’t learn at the same level and they have behavioral problems and things like that, those teachers can’t be effective in the classroom.
STATEMENT
You know, when you were talking about minority children and the lack of parents, education and how that can be lacked, I do- and I’m a social worker and I just graduated and [UNINTELLIGIBLE] degree but I really feel that even though the parents may want to be involved, they can’t be involved because there is that lack of the language. They don’t have the language, and my job right now, we’re – I’m on the cultural competency for my job, I mean that is part of my job is to make sure all of our workers are cultural competent in the area, and I just feel, as I’m doing my research, It’s not effective unless we’re, as a community, able to accept that into our community, and so I think that education is hindered by that, and I see that quality of care in the medical field is affected by that and I think it’s just a downhill. They just don’t know where to go, so.
STATEMENT
I wanted to commend you on your approach to attracting business to Iowa, realizing that the carrot usually works better than the stick, and that eventually the agriculture boom will fade once again and there needs to be something else in its place to keep the state going, and anything else that you can do to attract business to the state and jobs would be-
COMPLISULT
I told the two of you on the campaign trail that you would be a better governor this time around than you were before. Thank you for proving me right
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"A Des Moines police traffic accident report says Officer Phoukham Tran, injured in a traffic accident Friday outside the Iowa State Fair, was thrown 47 feet from the..."
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In this audio, Mayor Westergaard puts forth his opinion that the rafts in the swimming area of the beach should be removed as quickly as possible to keep vandals from sinking them. He also putts around some ideas for modifications to the putt-putt course…
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In this audio recording, the Lake View City Administrator talks about the great start for lake protective association, the status of Andy Spanjers community service, the problem of who to get to speak at the NW Iowa League Meeting on September 15, and what would happen if they could get Biden to speak, and then sit next to the mayor.
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