REGULAR MEETING, June 11, 2012

The regular meeting of the Wyoming City Council was held June 11, 2012 at the City Hall. Council members present were Dodge, Agnitsch, Gravel at 7:12, Heiken and Watters. Visitors:  Greg Graver-Jones Co. Sheriff, and Shirley Jones-Midland Times.    Staff: Gravel, Tjaden and Rushford. Mayor pro tem Dodge called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.

Moved by Watters seconded by Agnitsch to approve the consent agenda.   Roll call vote. All aye. Motion carried.

AFLAC                                                              EMPLOYEE INS                                     $76.92

AGVANTAGE FS, INC                                       CALKINS SUP                                       $481.31

ALLIANT UTILITIES                                            ELECTRIC SERV                                $2,398.52

ANAMOSA PUBLICATIONS                               CALKINS                                             $150.00

BAKER & TAYLOR                                            LIBR SUP                                             $29.66

BLADE PEST CONTROL, INC.                           CALKINS SERV                                    $55.00

BOOTS GREENHOUSE                         CALKINS                                              $40.00

BOSS OFFICE                                                  CITY SUP                                                $9.99

BRODART CO.                                                  LIBR SUP                                             $37.84

CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC.                   CITY SUP                                             $135.53

CHEM RIGHT LABORATORIES                          WATER LABS                                       $15.00

CITY OF WYOMING                                           TRANSFERS/UTIL                              $6,279.37

EASTERN IOWA TOURISM                                CAKLINS DUES                                    $135.00

HAWKINS, INC                                                  WA SUP                                              $387.23

HOLLY'S TOWN SUPER MARKET                     LIBR/CHILDCARE                                  $33.39

INGRAM BOOK COMPANY                               LIBR SUP                                             $14.38

IOWA PRISON INDUSTRIES                              BRIDGE SUP                                       $587.62

IPERS                                                              RETIREMENT                                     $1,372.26

IRS                                                                   FED/FICA TAXES                              $1,838.32

JOHN DEERE FINANCIAL                                 CALKINS SUP                                      $57.86

JONES COUNTY SHERIFF                                1/2 CONTRACT                    $12,142.00

JONES COUNTY SOLID WASTE                        CALKINS                                                 $6.38

LEE RUTENBECK CONSTRUCTION                   CALKINS SERV                                   $840.00

MAGUIRE IRON, INC                                         WATER SERV                                    $1,236.00

MAQUOKETA LUMBER                         CALKINS SUP                                      $64.20

MATT PARROTT AND SONS COMPANY            CITY SUP                                             $439.73

MIDLAND AMBULANCE                                    FUEL ALLOTMENT                             $1,100.00

MIDLAND TIMES                                               LEGAL PUBLICATIONS             $233.68

MIDWEST ALARM SERVICES                           CHILDCARE                                          $62.50

MONTICELLO HOME IMPROMENTS                  CALKINS SERV                                $4,435.92

MUNICIPAL STREETS IMPROVEMENTS            CALKINS SERV                                    $475.00

PER MAR SECURITY SERVICES                       CALKINS SECURITY                            $29.94

PER MAR SECURITY SERVICES                       LIBR/WHMC/CALKINS                           $259.56

PIONEER TELEPHONE                         CITY                                                    $10.29

RICK WATTERS                                                CLOTHING ALLOWANCE                      $236.88

SECURITY PRODUCTS OF DUBUQUE              CITY/CALKINS                                     $79.00

STAR FOOD SERVICE                                      CALKINS SUP                                  $1,033.95

TREASURER, STATE OF IOWA             SALES TAX                                       $2,567.24

U.S. CELLULAR                                                CITY SERV                                          $89.25

UNITED HEALTHCARE                                      INSURANCE                                    $3,248.74

VISA                                                                 LIBRARY/CHILDCARE/CITY                 $497.51

VISA CARD                                                      CALKINS SUP                                      $660.31

WAL MART COMMUNITY BRC                           CHILDCARE/LIBRARY/CITY                  $293.24

WAPSI WASTE SERVICE INC.                           MAY GA SERVICE                             $2,507.55

WYOMING DRUG                                              CITY SUPPLIES                                   $32.92

WYOMING MUTUAL TELEPHONE CO.               CALKINS/CITY/CHIIDCARE                  $191.88

WYOMING PUBLIC LIBRARY                             LIBRARY POSTAGE                             $28.57

WYOMING PUBLIC LIBRARY                             ALLOTMENT                                    $5,893.00

WYOMING VOL. FIRE CO.                                 CONTRACT                                        $3,850.00

CHECKING ACCT.                            $56,680.44

                       

ECICOG                                                            MAY SERVICES                                   $150.00

P&K MIDWEST                                                 LAWN MOWER                                    $375.00

VISA                                                                 WEBSTRAUNT STORE                         $210.39

CHILDCARE GRANT ACCT                   $735.39

CORRECTION TO MAY BILL LIST                      

CITIZENS STATE BANK                         BRIDGE LOAN                                $18,373.40

                                                                        NOT                                                 $18,825.41

                                                                                                                                  $(452.01)            

Revenue and Expenses for May 2012

Funds

 

Revenue

 

Expenses

General

 

15,208.28

 

32,409.85

Library Regular

 

853.63

 

2,319.50

Library Special

 

9.05

 

137.86

Wyoming Hist. Museum

 

1,041.69

 

3,277.90

Calkins

 

3.269.66

 

9,067.85

Calkins Barn

 

150.84

 

 

Road Use Tax

 

3,805.30

 

5,665.17

Trust & Agency

 

1,452.65

 

1,414.17

Local Option Sales Tax

 

2,957.91

 

18,373.40

Rohwedder Trust

 

16.21

 

 

Childcare Grant

 

24,534.00

 

6,831.72

Debt Service

 

       3,998.09

 

48,537.50

Water

 

12,777.44

 

10,752.31

Customer Deposits

 

100.00

 

 

Water Sinking Fund

 

2,293.27

 

19,932.50

Sewer

 

9,856.45

 

8,470.33

Sewer Sinking Fund

 

 

3,600.00

 

 

 

22,999.00

 

Storm Sewer

 

315.68

 

 

Childcare Enterprise

 

4,729.68

 

7,672.17

Totals

 

90,969.83

 

197,861.23

 

Correspondence included a thank you from Midland Post Prom and IDOT project for crack filling.

Moved by Agnitsch seconded by Watters to accept Mayor’s resignation.  Roll call vote.  All aye. Motion carried.

Moved by Agnitsch seconded by Watters to approve Resolution of Council’s intent to fill vacancy and set Special Meeting for Monday, June 25, 2012 at 6:30 p.m..  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.  Clerk assigned Resolution #1384.

Moved by Agnitsch seconded by Watters for Rushford and Heiken to attend Iowa League of Cities Conference in September at Sioux City.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.

Moved by Heiken seconded by Watters to appoint Rose Mere to Wyoming Historical Museum Commission, Paula Klein to Library Board and Dennis Boots to Board of Adjustment.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.

Moved by Agnitsch seconded by Watters to approve clerk checking with other cities to see what they do for situation where school and public share utilities for recreation.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.

Clerk will check with grant writer regarding if engineers need to move forward with sewer plans to apply for the grant. 

Moved by Agnitsch seconded by Watters to get quotes on cleaning out city drainage ditch from Webster St. to Green St. Roll call vote.  All aye. Motion carried.

Sewer connection at 208 W. Jones St. was discussed. 

Sheriff’s report was given.

Moved by Agnitsch seconded by Heiken to get a price from contractor of childcare’s parking lot for doing the asphalt patch in front of Bear Creek Café.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.

Moved by Heiken seconded by Gravel to approve Cigarette permits for Casey’s, Holly’s Town Super Market and Ted’s Swinging Door.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.

City attorney is looking further into amending the section regarding junk vehicles.  Attorney does feel it is a nuisance under section 50.01.  Will have further information at next meeting.

Moved by Heiken seconded by Gravel to approve Kluesner Construction, Inc. for Parking lot project at a quote of $19,658.00 subject to approval of USDA and Childcare board.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.  

No quotes were received for storage building.  Update of grant fund supplies was given.

Moved by Heiken seconded by Agnitsch to approve $500.00 in funding for the Library’s roof repairs.   Roll call vote.  All aye. Motion carried. 

Discussion was held on Housing and Sewer grant surveys and training for surveys.  Group is needed to conduct surveys.

Moved by Heiken seconded by Agnitsch to approve donation of dwarf magnolia tree and stone for Midway Park.  Adding black dirt to the planting will be needed due to lime fill.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.

Jones County Land Use will hold a Public Hearing on June 19th at 7 p.m. for a cell tower going up outside City limits.

Moved by Watters seconded by Heiken to approve a city FACEBOOK page.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.

Moved by Agnitsch seconded by Heiken to approve Resolution allowing Clerk to pay bills due before June 30, 2012.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.  Clerk assigned Resolution #1385.

Moved by Heiken seconded by Agnitsch to approve Resolution raising the Calkins VISA card limit to $10,000.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.  Clerk assigned Resolution #1386.

Moved by Agnitsch seconded by Heiken to approve Resolution for Library staff pay.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.  Clerk assigned Resolution #1387.

Citizens should call City Hall by the 14th to order the size of garbage and recycling carts they want.

Moved by Heiken seconded by Agnitsch to approve form for utility bills to be emailed.  Roll call vote.  All aye.  Motion carried.  Clerk will put a survey in the newsletter to see if enough people are interested to justify purchasing a program for the utility software.

Moved by Watters seconded by Gravel to adjourn at 7:59 p.m.   Roll call vote. All aye. Motion carried.

 

Kelly Dodge, Mayor protem                       Attest: Sheri Tjaden, City Clerk

 

 

 

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