Regular
Present for this regular meeting of the Board of Public Affairs was:
Mr.
Smith, Mr. King, Mr. Harrison and Mr. Faulkner. Guests: Mike Bow of M &
K
engineering and Pete Hodapp of Jones and Henry
Engineering. Absent:
Clerk
Boyd and Legal Advisor Moell.
A MOTION was made by Mr. Smith seconded by Mr. Faulkner to approve the
minutes of
A MOTION was made by Mr. Faulkner seconded by Mr. Smith to approve
the
following bills for payment in the amount of $16,604.10. Motion
Carried.
McDaniel’s Auto exhaust for truck 60.00
DP & L electric
3304.85
Kathy Hyland 29 hrs. 236.67
Chapter 13 for Bell 692.31
IRS W/H, M/C, Emp. M/C 631.73
Staples supplies 343.45
Shell Oil Co. gasoline 176.09
Vectren natural gas
25.85
David Bell 80 reg. 5.5 OT 203.56
Robert Harrison salary
1176.11
Nick Hostetler 72 reg. 8 vac. 3.25 OT
1015.21
James Nash 80 reg. 927.86
HD Waterworks supplies 212.32
NCL of Wisconsin supplies 147.27
JT Sales and Service rebuilt Carb. 42.50
Bonded Chemicals supplies
1977.50
Lowes filters 34.62
M & K engineering 50 hrs.
4000.00
MASI testing 93.60
MASI testing 17.75
Heather Hostetler return adv. Dep. #321 55.70
Rawdon Meyers fix control panel 778.70
MASI testing 280.45
Burch Lawn Care mowing 170.00
Mr. Harrison talked with Mike Kramer owner of
this
afternoon. The French drains have been installed and no water from the
apartments appears to be going into the neighbor’s field.
Rawdon Meyers scheduled for a service call on the
controls at the
booster
station. The unit has a stable reading but the reading on the
Aquatrol
controls varies up and down about 5-6’. Mr. Harrison left word with
the
insurance company adjuster that we have received the bill.
Mr. Harrison contacted Roberta Acosta of
Assistance
Program. She has started gathering information for the rate study.
Mr.
Harrison will start next week preparing a capital improvement list.
Mr. Harrison is not thrilled with the Windows Vista on the computer
but
have some of the “bugs” worked out.
Jeff Carter Excavating and have agreed to replace the hydrant on the
corner of E. Baird and Washington St. and install a watch valve in the
amount of $750.00 to include re-seeding. They will be doing the work
on
Monday morning the 27th of August. The water will be turned off while
they are replacing this hydrant and then a boil alert will be issued.
A MOTION was made by Mr. Smith, seconded by Mr. Faulkner to approve
the
hydrant install. Motion Carried.
Yesterday, the leaking portion of the water service line to
St.
Due to some confusion about the location of the service line the
project
took longer to complete than planned. Mike Louden
of 800
be
billed for a portion of the cost. Mr. Harrison installed a tracer
wire
with the PE pipe they used as the replacement. Mr. Harrison intends to
get and record some location measurements so the line can be more
easily
located in the future. The water department started a notebook on curb
stop locations several years ago and Mr. Nash will get back to work on
the project.
Mike Bow has 10 hrs. remaining on his contract with
us. He wanted to
know our wishes and agreed that he and Mr. Harrison will do more
checking
on infiltration problem and develop a plan for 2008.This is to
pinpoint
those areas where there is a lot of infiltration and develop plans on
how
to best correct the problem.
There was a lot discussion on painting the elevated water tank. Mr.
Harrison did not think it was ever painted since he has been working
here
and Mr. King and Mr. Faulkner think it looks fine. Mr. Harrison will
look in the minutes.
Pete Hodapp presented Jones and Henry Engineers prelimary plans and
drawings for solving removal of debris and trash from incoming
sewerage.
Ideas for possible changes were discussed and Mr. Hodapp
is going to
check a few things.
A MOTION was made by Mr. Smith, seconded by Mr. Faulkner to deliver
shut
off notices on the 24th, pay by the 28th and shut off 29th to the
following customers:
#85 Stenger, #99 Harmon, #118 Miller, #178 Neeld, #286
Miller,
#346 Norris, #562 Salyers, #609 Harbour,
and #678
Carried.
A MOTION was made by Mr. Faulkner, seconded by Mr. Smith to adjourn
PM.
Motion Carried.
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Clerk Cindee M. Boyd President Dean King