MINUTES OF THE ROLAND
CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR SESSION
May 12, 2008
Note: The following minutes were approved by the Roland,
The Roland City Council met in regular session on Monday,
May 12, 2008, at 7:00 p.m., at the
It was moved by Neely, seconded by Ford to approve the
consent agenda which contained the following items: May 12, 2008 agenda, minutes from the April
28, 2008 meeting as written, clerk/treasurer reports, claims as submitted and
set public hearing date for the 07/08 budget amendment for Wednesday, May 28,
2008 at 7:00 pm at City Hall. All were
in favor.
There was no public input at this time.
Department Head Reports were as follows:
Street
Department - Street Superintendent Harold Hovick reported
he needs to put down some cold patch. CM
Varley said he’d like to meet with Harold about the streets and sidewalks as he
has been getting a lot of complaints.
Harold reported that Pool Tech
was here and sealed around the pipe on both surge tanks. TNT Welding was here and welded the
gutters. So far they have had no luck
finding the leak. With three (3) feet of
water in the pool there is no loss, but at four and a half (4 ˝) feet the water
starts coming out the under drain. When
the Engineer was down, he did find that the glue on the upper pipe joints was
loose, but the water hasn’t reached that point yet. Harold and the Engineer were going to inspect
the bottom drain, but as he started letting the water out of the pool the side
of the manhole in the filter house blew out.
They had to call the Vac truck back to start sucking out the rock that
was falling into the sewer pipe. The
manhole is in poor condition. The only
way to see if the joints on the bottom drain are bad is to cut a hole in the
bottom of the pool. Harold suggests that
once the glue joints are fixed to fill the pool and as soon as the pool closes
continue trying to find where the leaks are.
City Engineer Eldon Rossow will be here tomorrow with a couple of
contractors to look at the manhole and sewer situation.
Water/Wastewater
Department – Water/Wastewater Superintendent Dean
Uitermark reported that the pump at the Industrial Park lift station stopped
working. The pump was temporarily fixed
but it is wore out. During this time he
had the lift station pumped out a couple of times. He has ordered two pumps for the lift
station. This way they will alternate
instead of one pump doing all the work.
The new pumps should be here in a couple of weeks. The generator has been ordered.
Dean also reported on the manhole
situation at the pool. Dean and Harold
will meet with the Engineer tomorrow about different options for bypassing the
manhole in the filter house. They will
be looking at installing two or three more manholes, that way the manhole in
the filter house would only be used to drain the pool. He also reported that another piece of the
manhole has fallen into the sewer pipe.
It is approximately 3’ x 2’ x 4” and is impeding the flow. They will have to bust it up in order to get
it out.
City
Clerk - City Clerk Deneen Frost reported that she has visited
with Jeff Schott with the
RADC
members Lynn Schulte and Marc Soderstrum were present to ask the council to
appoint city employee Janet Olson as the Secretary/Treasurer of the RADC.
Adam
Thorson, IKON representative, was present to answer questions the council might
have about upgrading the current copier to a color copier. City Clerk Frost put together a comparison
sheet detailing the costs. It will cost
the City an additional $9.60 or so to upgrade to the color copier. The copier will also fax, print and
scan. There will be an additional cost
to have the copier scan to a network.
After some discussion it was moved by Neely, seconded by Johnson to
upgrade to the new color copier.
AYE: Canny, Ford, Johnson, Neely;
NAY: Varley. Mayor Pro-tem Canny declared the motion
passed.
Council/Mayor comments consisted of the following: CM Canny-Park Board has been residing the
concession stand at the park. It looks good.
Thank the board members if you see any of them. He checked out the park equipment at the
pool. The verticals are ok, need a good
sanding, but the horizontals need some work.
CM Varley-NLJC on Wednesday to discussion some different possibilities.
There was no public input at this time.
It was moved by Neely, seconded by Johnson to adjoin to the
swimming pool at 7:48 pm. All were in
favor.
The council meeting reconvened at the swimming pool at 7:57
pm. Council members present were Canny,
Johnson, Neely and Varley. CM Ford was
absent.
Council members looked at the loose joints under the pool
deck, the manhole in the filter house and where the proposed manholes would be
placed to relocate the sanitary sewer from under the pool. Harold was asked if he knew how much the project
would cost. Harold stated that the
estimated cost to install the additional manholes and pipe will be
approximately $15,000.
With no further business at this time, Canny moved
adjournment of the meeting at 8:15 p.m., seconded by Varley. All were in favor. The next regular council meeting will be
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. at City Hall.