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The Reporter covers Miller, Morgan and Camden County in Central Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks and is published once per week on Wednesdays.

Published May 23, 2018

Osage Beach approves Lee C. Fine Airport bid

OSAGE BEACH – A bid to finish the reconstruction of the taxiway at Lee C. Fine Airport has been approved by the Board of Aldermen even though work will not be done until 2019.

The bid needed to be approved before a June deadline in order to apply for a grant to fund the project.

“The engineering contract for this project was awarded at the February 1, 2018 Board of Aldermen Meeting to CMT. This project will need to be awarded prior to June for submission of grant application for FAA funding,” the written report to the board stated. “We do not anticipate results from this project until August/September of this year. We notified the bidders that this project would be construction in 2019.”

There were three bidders for the project.

• $2,109,573.15 from Emery Sapp & Sons out of Columbia, MO
• $2,061,070.70 from Young’s General Contracting, out of Poplar Bluff, MO
• $1,672,127.30 from Lehman Construction, LLC out of Columbia, MO

The engineer had estimated the project cost at $2,133,818.50.

There was an additive on this bid for hauling asphalt millings to the Public Works Building. The additive bid is in the amount of $26,855.

This item would not be covered with grant funds but would be covered with city transportation funds.

The FAA will award the grant through the Missouri Department of Transportation and is a 90 percent grant, which should cover $1,504,914.57 of the cost with the city paying the remaining 10 percent, in addition to the $26,855.

If this project is awarded, it will need to be included in the 2019 Budget and the city will have to do a supplemental agreement with CMT to cover inspection services.

This is the construction phase of Phase 2 of the taxiway project.

A first and second reading was requested simultaneously due to the grant project's timetable.

Some of the other business addressed at last weeks; Board of Aldermen meeting:

• The mayor read three proclamations, word for word, for National Public Works Week (May 20-26), National Emergency Medical Services Week (May 20-26) and Memorial Day (May 28).
• Approved the second reading for an ordinance to correct a scrivener’s error in section 510.300 of Article IV, Roadcuts and Utility Trenches
• Approved the second reading for the Apple Blossom Stormwater Improvements.
• Approved the bid of Travis Hodge Hauling for Grinder Station 889 replacement
• Approved the second reading of an Intergovernmental Agreement, with Camden County for the Three Seasons Overlay Project.
• Approved the first reading of an ordinance changing the rules related to Sunday Liquor sales.

According to City Attorney Ed Rucker, the State of Missouri has eliminated a provision on Sunday liquor sales that had a requirement that Sunday sales must be at an establishment with at least 50 percent food sales.

“This change has been discussed by the city’s Liquor Control Board; no issues were raised by the Board,” the City Administrator said. “This requirement has been removed by the State of Missouri at the State level and is a change that the Board of Aldermen has the discretion to make at the city level.”

The section that would be eliminated said:

“For the privilege of selling intoxicating liquor by the drink on Sundays in ‘restaurant-bars’ as used in this Chapter, any establishment having a restaurant or similar facility on the premises, of which at least fifty percent (50%) of the gross income is derived from the sale of prepared meals or food consumed on such premises or which has an annual gross income of at least two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) from the sale of prepared meals or food consumed on such premises. All other laws and regulations of the City relating to the sale of liquor by the drink for consumption on the premises where sold shall apply to a restaurant bar in the same manner as they apply to other establishments licensed under the provisions of this Chapter. In addition to all other fees required by law, a restaurant bar shall pay an additional fee of three hundred dollars ($300.00) a year for Sunday sales payable at the same time and in the same manner as its other license fees.”

• A policy placing restrictions on the open burning of trash rubbish and landscape waste within the city went down in flames after several questions and complaints from the aldermen.

The initial idea was to ban the burning of trash in barrels and that was all that was wanted. The proposed ordinance was massively increase to define what materials can and can’t be burned in the city and limits many burnings to only a six foot area, among many other restrictions.

The board voted to withdraw the bill from consideration and allow City Attorney Ed Rucker to come up with a simplified version that mirrored the original request.

The second reading of the above bills should take place at the next meeting which is scheduled for June 7.