The Jefferson City Council met last night in regular session.
The Council approved an easement with Greene County is relocate a water line that is potentially hazardous by the Greene County secondary roads maintenance shop at Wall Street to be between High and Walnut streets and a proposal for $19,500 by Bill Thorp to clean out over a 1,200-foot space in a ravine by the Greene County Medical Center for future work to be done on the sanitation service on the north end of the City.
The Council also approved a certificate of completion to King Construction for water line improvements around Hy-Vee Incorporated and the start of a two-year warranty for that work, setting November 11th as a public hearing to vacate and transfer part of Locust Street between blocks 14 and 15 to two separate landowners, appoint Jim Unger to the City’s airport commission to fill a vacancy and reappoint Guy Richardson and Steve Harrison to another six-year term.
The Council also approved a second reading for the ordinance change in the division of taxes in the Urban Renewal Area and to not exceed $20,000 to replace a 12 year-old server and a 15-20 year-old printer for the City Hall office to use.
Economic Development Director Ken Paxton gave an update to the Council about Greene County Development Corporation. He told the Council that GCDC is working on making their business parks more marketable for site selectors to locate potential national businesses in the county and he is hoping to use hotel/motel tax funds to use in their marketing plan to create more tourism money. He also talked about doing a tour of empty buildings in that potential buyers and business owners would get a tour of the empty downtown buildings on the square to generate interest in those buildings. The Council then approved its quarterly funding following the report.
MeLinda Madison gave an update about A Token of Love joining with the Iowa Donor Network and invited everyone to another groundbreaking for a new Iowa Donor Network location in Altoona in February. She also invited everyone to their big event on July 18th at the Greene County Courthouse to feature all their fundraising events for the Iowa Donor Network and the state’s Veteran Hospital.
City Attorney Bob Schwarzkopf told the Council that they City closed on two properties at 407 Lincoln Way and 206 South Maple Street. City Administrator Mike Palmer said the plans for those properties is to contract out the demolition of both properties and then sell the 407 Lincoln Way property to a company to build a new house to put on the market and the 206 South Maple Street location would try to sell to an adjacent landowner.