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I'll get to that word later. But first a recap of the important parts of the City Council meeting last night from the spectators row.
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Jenny Perkins (District 2)was absent.
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The first bit of business was from a dude that was disputing his $65 bill from the city for snow removal. Good job dude. I would complain also. Not sure what action was taken - if any. Sort of weird.
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Then there was the weird voting for Council President which was on the bizarre side. Nominations were from Thom (Perkins) and Davidson (Bomcamp). Four votes are needed. Instead of a roll call vote a secret vote was held (yet votes were signed to be official) and I believe Davidson, while nominating Bomcamp voted for Schumann, or Bomcamp voted against himself. Either way - weird. Also it is NOT customary to have a secret vote, not sure what was up with that.
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Fee Schedules were discussed with weed and snow removal with $50 fines going to $75 for each additional fine for each additional infraction.
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Street repair was discussed with Resolution 8-13. Columbus budgets $60K a year in road repair with $129K needed this year. So a resolution was created for an additional $59,925K being used from the TIF3 loan to fix Hwy 16 near the strip mall area.
Attached to this transfer was $16K for a new parking lot next the the library. Schunamm wanted to separate the two as they were two separate issues.
SO - Hwy 16 - This is ACTUALLY a State problem but they are not going to fix their highway until 2016 and they say screw you Columbus, deal with it. So WE have to do SOMETHING.
Parking lot. - There was some debate on spending money on the parking lot and Davidson was against it as seniors should stop being lazy and walk across the street (not his words but basically what he was saying). I completely 100% disagree. This is a very dangerous situation and Columbus is just asking for a catastrophic event.
Yes there is public parking a block away but seniors and are not that quick on walking across state highways. The current parking has you opening your door into oncoming traffic on a State Hwy. There was conversation about how the library used maintenance funds that it had saved from the past few years to fix up the current library and why did they do that instead of funding a parking lot. Good Grief.
They saved maintenance money hoping to get an expansion but that fell through so they used what they collected FOR MAINTENANCE.
Get a new parking lot before someone gets killed - LITERALLY.
It was tabled until next meeting. Man I had some things I wanted to say.
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We have a new City Administrator. A vote was taken and Adams and Thom abstained which was wise. I would not vote either. They had zero say in who the candidate was but then were asked to vote? Why would we get a new City Admin without the new Council having a say. Why was this rushed through. The guy was a YES YES backer and while some were happy some in the crowd were very unhappy.
I do not know the guy so I know nothing.
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The building on 103 N Ludington was discusse.
Here is the deal. There are three brick walls to the construction. The outer wall is detached because of moisture. A small fix was made in 2007? but the problem is still there with water still getting in and the bricks on the bottom disintegrating. The owners, who live in Columbus, are refusing to allow access into the building for inspection so the City is taking steps to go in by force if they have too.
If the building does cause bodily harm it is the owner s liability, not the city's.
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In other building news, the Police Station is having major problems with water in the basement do to a few factors, one being the roof is 2 months behind schedule and the building NEXT to the police station is forcing water runoff INTO the station. Add to the fact that the sidewalks all slant toward the building and we have a building in water hell.
A drain tile system is being looked at ($8K).
My question would have been, was this not inspected? This water problem should not be a surprise, right? Just a question.
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But the biggest "give Columbus the middle finger" moment was the high power lines that are running through The Gateway. American Transmission Company has a 20 foot easement under those lines.
Seems any injury to construction workers OR any injury to American Transmission Company workers while working on their own lines will by the liability to the city. Lawyers have tried to talk to ATC about this saying it's not fair that if THEIR people get injured on THEIR lines doing THEIR work, Columbus is liable, no matter WHAT the problem was.
The ONE SENTENCE REPLY? One sentence "The wording will not change". click! A big F*ck you Columbus from ATC.
Granted, it's 20 feet under the lines so the risk of injury is pretty nill. BUT!!!!! Nothing we can do. They have bigger lawyers they we do.
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OH - Nepotism. Seems the community pool had a nepotism "problem" with hiring sons and daughters and they were asking for rewording some policies. I see no problem with rewording for seasonal employees. This is a common sense thing. If the director wants to hire his son as a lifeguard as he was hired by his father that is fine. This is not some big company hiring a son for Vice President of Marketing.
The committee had no problems.
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Speaking of the pool. The Vortex slide is going forward and and HOPEFULLY will be installed before opening day.
There was some talk about the sludge truck repair going forward and a new leasing of a road grader to be used for snow removal of city streets.
That's pretty much the highlights of the 3.5 hour meeting last night.
That's it
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