00:00
Call to order
00:02
Roll Call
- All present
00:14
Welcome of visitors
00:35
Council offers condolences to the Mike Rix family
00:55
Consent of agenda
- Approval of agenda
- Approval of previous minutes
- Approval of Receipts and disbursements
01:07
Amendment of agenda
01:58
Waste Water Treatment Plant Update
03:00
Discussion about structural problem with walls in the RBC building
03:30
The east wall is bowed some eight inches
03:59
The windows are in very poor condition
04:52
We can’t really straighten it too much, but we can prevent it from going further
06:00
To make matters worse, a lot of the things that were designed in the wall, are not in the wall
06:42
Recommends not tuck-pointing the wall
08:06
We want to give them some strength so that they can’t bend
08:58
If it goes a lot further, that’s when you are subject to a possible failure
09:19
I think we can fix them for a lot less than $30K
11:05
I realize there’s no guarantees in some of this, will that stop it?
- …it would be nice to make sure that it could last another 30 years
11:45
We did set aside $100K for these kinds of things.
- Already sent 11K for two different electricity projects
13:44
MidAmerican is changing a design and this will cost the city $30K+
15:14
We found piping that is completely destroyed
16:44
I want to make sure I’m doing what you folks want
17:32
the plant operators don’t have any idea what’s going on at that station.
- If something isn’t working, they have to go out and check it
18:20
Controls to be hooked up to pump that will call the plant when there is a problem
19:27
Part of the problem is…
19:44
This will just read the flow.
20:26
Who much extra would it take for them to be ale to call out and find out what’s going on?
- Engineer guesses $10k
21:28
Approval of changer order #3
- Clarification of what that vote is.
22:23
Approval of change order #4
22:47
Further clarification of vote for change order #3
23:22
Approval of change order #5
24:11
Approval of change order #6 tabled
24:36
Citizen’s opportunity to address the council
24:51
Approval of 2011-2012 cigarette permits
-This is an annual approval package
25:15
Approval of special event class B beer permit for Depot
25:37
Renewal of Food Pride liquor permit
26:01
Discussion about Tax Increment Financing
26:19
Joe Behrens hands out educational material regarding TIF
28:10
Cities can use TIF for “pretty much about anything the city defines in a plan up front to do.”
29:11
“If you do a TIF project, it locks up those funds, those new taxes generated, for a period of time.”
- Whenever you TIF, those funds are not available or the Cities and the school for the amount of time for which you TIF
30:39
Examples of communities Sac City’s size that have used TIF
31:32
Effectively that way to look at it is, that business paid for its own utilities, just not up front
33:29
The RXIICOG has three TIF projects on hold because of proposed tax rollbacks
33:59
R12 has three projects on hold due to fear of roll back
34:47
Discussion about using TIF to put in housing
35:22
Discussion about the Sibley, Iowa agreement
35:58
Recognition of county officials
36:59
The basis of all these city/county agreements are that the city will run the utilities out o the park, and that the county will set up and manage a TIF district, and there will be some sort of agreement about how much each party pays as far as the utilities provided to the district is, and how much each entity re-collects off of the cost associated with running those utilities. Which utilities are included is a negotiable point as are streets and sewers and all other forms o infrastructure.
37:54
In Sibley, the county right of ways were used to run the utilities to the district.
38:40
The Sibley method of TIF would avoid the need to annex
38:49
Sales tax can be TIFed
- According to Joe Behrens, these are unpredictable because of the volatile nature of local sales tax amounts.
39:50
Sac County Supervisors Rick Hecht wants a sunset in the TIF so that the properties can go back on the tax rolls.
42:41
In the Sibley agreement, it is spelled out that the TIF district is established for the creation of the district, and not for the maintenance of the district, as it is used elsewhere.
42:32
TIFs used for economic development don’t seem to end, and those properties don’t seem to come back onto the tax rolls in a timely manner.
42:55
Only one TIF district out of five in Sac County has ever retired
44:38
Can the boundaries of the TIF district be as large as possible?
- As big as you want.
47:01
TIF can be expanded into areas that are not part of an area that is considered a place for economic growth. It’s not illegal.
48:44
Is there a negative side to making a bigger TIF district than is needed?
- Not nessesarily as long as local officials are responsible.
50:36
Council goes into closed session under chapter 21.c – Discussion of Pending litigation
- City Attorney on the phone.
51:33
Selection of Kuehl and Payer as the preferred vendor for the Street Repair project
53:41
City to sell mosquito sprayer and the Ford trucks, (including the fire truck)
- Mike Green recommended that the city sell the equipment through a bidding process rather than through an auction.
- Hoping to get bids by July 22, and moving forward on July 25
- If the scrapping value is more than the bids, the city can reject all of the bids
56:00
Appointment of Teresa Loxterkamp to the City Park Board
56:24
Further discussion about open burning permits out of normal dates if current open burning dates
59:57
What is a hardship?
01:00:00
What is the appeal process?
01:03:25
The appeal process would be handled by the city council
01:03:43
There is a notification process that you are applying for a burning permit
- Mayor suggests that if the applicants get signatures from all of their neighbors prior to being granted the permit, there would be no need for an appeal process.
01:05:10
Two people have applied for a burning permit.
01:06:01
Is there enough interest in the council to continue pursuing this law
01:06:53
Branches can be burned as a recreational fire
01:07:11
You could use the permit the day after it was approved
01:08:22
Approval of the specifications for the north 5th street electrical project and to get bids
01:09:50
Sac City Chamber/Main Street executive board has discussed doing the landscaping for the North 5th Street project themselves.
01:12:17
Bids were due Friday July 2, 2011
01:12:43
Approval of the specifications for the North 5th street construction project and to get bids
01:13:11
City to vacate two alleys and one street
- Public hearing to be held on July 25, 2011 for all three alleys
- East-West Alley lying within black 6, Early Addition.
- East-West Alley adjacent and adjoining the North half of Lots 1&2 of black 7 of College Ave
- Duncombe Street lying east of the east line of 17th street and lying west of the west line of 16th Street adjacent and adjoining lots 1 through 5 of Block 6 not previously vacated Early’s Addition
01:18:15
Approval of Resolution 2011-07 hiring city employees for FY 2011-2012
01:18:54
Management got a 2% raise and the employee base got a 0% raise
01:19:50
Mike Rix last check will not be issued until after July one, so his name is in this resolution
01:20:17
Darlo Austin approved as acting superintendent of the Water Department
- this was recommended by the DNR
01:21:04
Discussion about proposed state legislation pertaining to municipalities
- This is skimmed over.
01:22:39
Committee and Department Head Reports
- Chamber Main Street Group to look into creating a fish habitat in the left over borrow pits on highway 20
- Kids World drew 60_70 people to their parents night out fundraiser
- Sac Community Center to offer birthday parties
- Sac Community Center to offer Pickleball, Lazer Tag
- Sac community Center looking at new windows and new doors
- Park Board met, camp ground usage is up
- Volleyball court lights not working
- Cemetery is in good shape.
01:26:37
Council goes into closed session to evaluate and Adam Ledford as a city administrator
- Four months late
- The council
01:28:40
Adjournment
