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Published March 26, 2014
OB Board of Aldermen actions Thursday Mar. 20
OSAGE BEACH - In other business at the March 20 Board of Aldermen meeting:
* City Treasurer Kari Bell was presented with a financial excellence achievement
award by Mayor Penny Lyons.
Bell and her department have won the independently-awarded accolade for 14
straight years. She thanked the city staff for their help in preparing the
financial statements that led to the award.
* An unusual agreement with Ameren Missouri for the relocation of utilities at
Lee C. Fine Airport was approved by the board.
According to Public Works Director Nick Edelman, the Ameren facilities are in
the way of the new hangar building.
“We would like to get reimbursed for work to be done by Ameren Missouri from
MoDOT (Missouri Department of Transportation) Aviation,” Edelman said in a
report to the board.
In order to receive that 90 percent reimbursement, MoDOT requires an agreement
between the city and Ameren. The cost of the project is $10,713.40.
Edelman noted that the city does not usually need such agreements, but MoDOT’s
reimbursement is dependent on state and federal funds, which in turn requires
such an arrangement.
* The board approved a request from Public Works Director Edelman to provide
engineering and administrative services to the Osage Beach Special Road
District.
The road district has agreed to fund repairs to a portion of Aver Road that was
damaged during flooding that occurred in the first week of August 2013. Edelman
said run-off from torrential rain fall went over a portion of Aver Road where it
meets up with Mace Road and washed out an embankment.
“They (OB road district) would like to utilize city staff in case Aver Road
becomes a city street in the future,” Edelman said in a report to the board.
The project will not bring the road up to city standards, Edelman stated, but
“this action would need to be taken if the city would accept the road in the
future.”
* A supplemental agreement with Crawford, Murphy and Tilly, Inc. for additional
land acquisition services at Grand Glaize Airport was given first- and
second-reading approval by the board.
“An appraisal was required by MoDOT (Missouri Department of Transportation) that
was not originally anticipated to complete the acquisition,” Edelman said in a
report to the board. “Title opinions (title search) were also required in this
project.”
Edelman noted that MoDOT will reimburse the city 90 percent of the additional
cost of $10,115.
* A water tower fencing project was awarded to the apparent low bidder, Ken
Kauffman and Sons Excavating, LLC with a bid amount of $5,395.
According to Public Works Director Edelman, the bid came in “drastically under
estimate” after modifying the project’s requirements.
“We took out another project from the original project,” Edelman said.
Additional fencing around the Parkview Bay Water Tower will be installed for
security purposes, Edelman stated in a report to the board.
* Hutchins Telecom, Inc. was awarded a contract for city park irrigation
controllers by a vote of the board. The controllers will cover all three ball
fields and soccer fields at the city park at a cost of $6,536.
“Insurance will be reimbursing the city,” Edelman said.
* The purchase of a Ford F-350 for the sewer department - at a cost of $33,337 -
and a Ford F-550 dump truck for the street department - at a cost of $50,323 -
was approved by the board.
According to Edelman, the city will seek bids for a crane to be attached to the
F-350 and a snow plow will be added to the F-550 dump truck. Both vehicles will
be purchased through a MoDOT state bid contract with Joe Machens Capitol City
Ford.
* A request from Police Chief Todd Davis to purchase equipment for four 2014
Ford Police Interceptor utility vehicles was approved by the board.
“The purchase price for these items is $10,850,“ Davis said in a report to the
board.
The vehicles themselves should arrive by April, the police chief noted.
* A last-minute addition to the agenda - a request to purchase 15 handheld
radios and a base station from Public Works Director Edelman - was approved by
the board.
“There are currently 12 public works trucks that either don’t have radios or
have radios that don’t work,” Edelman said in a report to the board. “Also, the
base station radio along with the supporting accessories for the public works
building is old and needs to be replaced.”
The total cost will be $19,801.40 and will be supplied from three budget line
items.
* Second-reading approval was given by the board to an ordinance amending city
liquor license requirements. The amendment allows the city clerk to issue
time-limited liquor permits “for catering, tasting, or sale by the drink, for
consumption on premises” to persons currently holding a retail sale by the drink
liquor license.
City Clerk Diann Warner already holds such authority by ordinance for churches,
schools, civic and service organizations “for a picnic, bazaar, fair or similar
gathering,” according to a earlier report to the board from City Attorney Edward
Rucker.
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