Seligman makes progress on splash pad
February 18, 2015
Steve Chapman
Seligman’s splash pad plans are coming together after last week’s city council meeting. The board accepted a bid from Sanders construction to build the splash pad this spring for $18,246.
Barry Lenhart, who represented Sanders Construction at the meeting, spoke to the council to answer their questions concerning the construction company’s bid to build the splash pad. Lenhart explained to the council he could not give them a definite date of completion for the splash pad due to the volume of projects the company was already working on. “I don’t want to tell you something and then not follow through with it,” he told the council.
Finally, Lenhart asked the council if it would be acceptable for the project to be completed between the months of April and June in 2015, which the council agreed to. The council voted to accept Sanders’s bid to build the splash pad.
The council also discussed plugging city well #2. City Clerk Brian Nichols told the council he had received a communication from the state telling them that any well that has not been in use for two or more years had to be plugged, no exceptions. The estimated the cost for plugging the well to be a maximum of $18,000, but Nichols is working on two grants. One grant would reimburse the city for 90 percent of the cost of plugging the well while the other reimburse the city for the other 10 percent. “The goal is zero percent out of pocket,” Nichols told the council.
In other business, the council approved $1,500 to be spent on fireworks for the 4th of July and also heard the second and final readings of three bills before they became ordinances. Ordinance 15-02 increases court costs to $33.50 due to a $2 domestic violence fee to be collected and submitted to the state. Ordinance 15-03 renews Seligman’s agreement with Barry County to allow the county to collect the city’s taxes, and Ordinance 15-04 establishes a policy to prevent a backflow through the service connection into the city’s water supply system.
The council went into closed session to conduct employee evaluations. Following the closed session, the council adjourned for the evening.
Steve Chapman
Seligman’s splash pad plans are coming together after last week’s city council meeting. The board accepted a bid from Sanders construction to build the splash pad this spring for $18,246.
Barry Lenhart, who represented Sanders Construction at the meeting, spoke to the council to answer their questions concerning the construction company’s bid to build the splash pad. Lenhart explained to the council he could not give them a definite date of completion for the splash pad due to the volume of projects the company was already working on. “I don’t want to tell you something and then not follow through with it,” he told the council.
Finally, Lenhart asked the council if it would be acceptable for the project to be completed between the months of April and June in 2015, which the council agreed to. The council voted to accept Sanders’s bid to build the splash pad.
The council also discussed plugging city well #2. City Clerk Brian Nichols told the council he had received a communication from the state telling them that any well that has not been in use for two or more years had to be plugged, no exceptions. The estimated the cost for plugging the well to be a maximum of $18,000, but Nichols is working on two grants. One grant would reimburse the city for 90 percent of the cost of plugging the well while the other reimburse the city for the other 10 percent. “The goal is zero percent out of pocket,” Nichols told the council.
In other business, the council approved $1,500 to be spent on fireworks for the 4th of July and also heard the second and final readings of three bills before they became ordinances. Ordinance 15-02 increases court costs to $33.50 due to a $2 domestic violence fee to be collected and submitted to the state. Ordinance 15-03 renews Seligman’s agreement with Barry County to allow the county to collect the city’s taxes, and Ordinance 15-04 establishes a policy to prevent a backflow through the service connection into the city’s water supply system.
The council went into closed session to conduct employee evaluations. Following the closed session, the council adjourned for the evening.