June 20, 2011 Lake View, Iowa City Council Meeting

00:00
Call to order

00:05
Roll Call

00:12
Public Forum

00:16
Approval of consent agenda
- Agenda
-Minutes of the June 6 meeting
- Roger Peterson building permit
- John Westergaard building permit
- May 2011 financial report
- Liquor license for the trappers Den
- Cigarette license for Lake View Foods
- Cigarette license for Lake View Redemption Center
- Cigarette license for Sparky’s One Stop
- Approval of bills and authorize payment

00:34
Meredith rezoning request denied

02:20
Request to hold circus approved

04:42
Discussion about BMX bicycle show on 3rd Street

05:52
Discussion about parade route

06:21
Approval of Water Carnival activities and street closures

06:35
Approval of Liquor License for Lake View Redemption Center
- Laney Abstains because he owns it

07:09
City awarded $150K RISE grant for Boulder’s Drive; discussion

24:50
Discussion about how to insure Boulder’s Drive project

25:46
No action needs to be taken for RISE grant at this time

26:58
Approval of $10,230.88 pay estimate for Ice House Point Trail

27:55
Discussion about rest area on bike trail at Ice House Point

32:48
Discussion about repairing sidewalk at Kathy’s Korner

35:00
Stanley Consultants gets the nod for re-conductoring project

47:12
Approval of 2% raise for city employees

51:36
Nuisance issue with Day Dreamers building discussed

54:23
Discussion about property with “yard ornaments”

55:16
Discussion about Wilt property

56:24
Discussion about fence adjacent to Tim Laney’s property

57:59
Council not into specifying special parking for Iowa State Bank

59:03
Mini Donut vendor to come to town on July 2, 3, and 4

01:00:16
Esc Dance Corp interested in renting Mini Golf Course

01:01:08
Discussion about Bill Wollessen windmill

01:06:36
Next City Council Meeting set for Tuesday July 5, 2011

01:06:46
Citizen inquiry about better notification of meeting topics

01:19:37
Further discussion about Wollessen windmill

01:20:26
Adjournment

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Minutes of the June 21, 2011 Sac County Supervisors meeting

June 21, 2011

Board Room

10:00 AM
The Sac County Board of Supervisors met in regular session with all members present, Jack Bensley, Chairman, presiding. The minutes of the last meeting were approved as submitted.

It was moved by Hecht and seconded by Stock to amend the agenda to consider transfers to secondary roads. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Stock and seconded by Hecht to approve the agenda as amended. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Hecht and seconded by Stock to approve the drainage claims as submitted. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Hecht and seconded by Stock to approve a proposed tile repair on DD 43 located in Section 17, Delaware Twp for an estimated cost of $350.00. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Hecht and seconded by Stock to approve a proposed tile repair on DD 71 (Lee Drain) located in Section 32, Jackson Twp for an estimated cost of $450.00. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Hecht and seconded by Stock to approve a proposed tile repair on DD 71, Branch A, located in Section 32, Jackson Twp for an estimated cost of $300.00. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Stock and seconded by Hecht to approve a proposed tile repair on DD 67, Main Tile, located in Section 26, Eden Twp for an estimated cost of $1,000.00. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Stock and seconded by Hecht to approve the claims as listed on the claims register in the Auditor’s office. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Hecht and seconded by Stock to approve the transfers of $259,417.00 from Rural Basic to Secondary Roads and $24,061.75 from General Basic to Secondary Roads. Ayes all, motion carried.

The County Auditor discussed a redistricting plan for Sac County as a result of the 2010 census. By law, the precinct boundaries and the supervisor district boundaries must be reviewed and, if necessary, be adjusted to balance the population among the three supervisor districts in the county. A committee will be appointed to review the population distribution and the proposed supervisor district boundaries.

The County Engineer updated the Board on activities of the county road crews and the current status of construction and maintenance projects. Progress on Highway 20 and how it affects secondary roads was also discussed.

It was moved by Hecht and seconded by Stock to approve the Federal Aid agreements for replacing bridges on County Road M54 north of County Road D15 and on County Road M35 south of Highway 20. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Stock and seconded by Hecht to approve the preconstruction agreement number 2011-C-127 with the Iowa D.O.T. for reconstructing County Road N 14 into Highway 196. Ayes all, motion carried.

It was moved by Hecht and seconded by Stock to approve a 2% wage increase for the county engineer and all non-union staff in secondary roads for 2011/12. Ayes all, motion carried. Non-union staff include Mike Reidell, Ted Schulte and Kim Tolliver.

With there being no further business, on motion, the meeting was adjourned.

Secretary S/ James W. Dowling, Chairman____________________, Date___________

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Sac City Bowling Center Summer Bowling League begins

Summer Bowling League starts Today, June 23rd and runs for 6 weeks. It is a 2 person, mixed, non-sanctioned league.

It begins at 7:00 p.m. and you establish a handicap for tournaments. Hope to see you here on Thursday!!

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Lake View, Iowa to start posting full agendas on city website

In response to a claim from a City of Lake View employee that the Lake View Resort Newspaper is doing an inadequate job of fully informing the citizenry of upcoming city council meeting topics, the Lake View City Council directed Lake View, Iowa City Administrator Scott Peterson to find a way to post a full agenda on the City's website the Friday prior to each city council meeting.

Marcia Haakenson, the editor of The Lake View, Iowa Resort Newspaper and the reporter normally assigned to cover the Lake View City Council for that publication, exited the June 20, 2011 meeting at which the conversation took place about twenty minutes before business was concluded, and was therefore was not present to respond., though TSN feels it should be pointed out that The Lake View Resort Newspaper is not responsible for the level of detail the city chooses to publish in their tentative agendas.

A twenty seven year old Iowa law put into place before the rise of the internet requires cities over a certain size to spend taxpayer money publishing tentative agendas in a hard copy newspaper and does not offer guidance for municipalities in geographic areas that only support a monopoly weekly publication. Except for the cost of maintaining the website, which the city will continue to maintain anyway, the City of Lake View will be able to self publish a more complete meeting agenda at no further charge to the taxpayers of that town.

Other Sac County, Iowa towns that regularly self publish meeting agendas are Sac City, and Odebolt. Until recently, Wall Lake and Early also regularly self published complete agendas for the benefit of their citizens on their city websites. At the June 13, 2011 Auburn city council meeting, the council discussed plans to revamp their website so that they too can carry agendas and minutes in a timely manner.

A full list of all of all of the websites mentioned in this story as well as tentative and (as they are released,) complete agendas for all of the towns mentioned in this story can be found at http://thesacnews.com.

...at no cost to the taxpayers of Sac County, Iowa.

The City of Lake View, Iowa is still required by law to publish agendas in a hard copy newspaper, and there was not a discussion about discontinuing compliance with that Iowa law at the June 20 council meeting.

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