Note: The transcript states the meeting occurred on June 4, 2024; however, the provided instruction specifies June 6, 2024. This summary uses the mandated date.
Mayor Bill Schickle called the meeting to order. Roll call established a quorum: Councilmembers Lee, Adams, Simmons, and Latham were present. The agenda was adopted as amended, with the annual comprehensive financial report removed due to a clerical discrepancy.
All votes were unanimous with no opposition recorded. The meeting concluded with announcements: groundbreaking for the river walk on Thursday at 10 a.m. south of the mall, and Friday Night Live event.
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the regular meeting of the Mason City City Council. This is the meeting for June 4th, 2024. Mayor Bill Schickle. We're delighted to have you with us this evening. The first item is of business is the roll call. Pam, would you call the roll? Lee. Present. Adams. Present. Here. Simmons. Present. Here. Latham. Here. Let the record reflect that we have a quorum present. The next item of business is the adoption of the agenda with one modification. We will not have the annual comprehensive financial report tonight because of a clerical discrepancy. Most to approve as amended. We have a motion to approve the agenda as uh amended. Is there any second? We have a motion and a second discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed, the same sign. The next item of business is the public forum. This is your chance to comment on any item that is on the agenda. If there is an agenda item that you would like to comment on, uh please uh come to the podium, state the number of the agenda, and uh the floor is yours. Hearing no public comment at this time, I'll close the public hearing and we'll move to the regular consent agenda. Some regular items, the minutes, the claims, the permits, then the hiring of Kelsey Hammersted as a police officer. That's item number five. Item six is hiring Chris Earhart as the central store keeper. And the next item on the agenda is approving the uh purchase of equipment for the water utility department. Item number eight is a resolution approving uh the purchase of a Arborist high ranger truck for the uh uh operations and maintenance division. Next we have levying of assessments for unpaid charges to the county treasurer for collection with property taxes. Item number ten is fixing the uh wage increase for non-bargaining employees at four point two five percent. Uh resolutions A and B there and uh and setting the uh compensation for elected officials. Um and those pay ranges are right within the range of that our bargaining unit uh received earlier. Item 11, 12, and 13 are related. Uh resolution approving a contract and bond for the construction of the Murphy Park Trail Bridge. Uh this came in at uh 1.6 million. This will be a great extension of the strip road across Illinois and running through Murphy Park with a footbridge there and extending all the way eventually to the High Line Trail. Next step in our uh prairie rock trails improvements. Item 12 is approving an amendment uh to the pressure professional services agreement with uh WHKS. Um this is also for the Prairie Rock Trail work uh to be paid for with a local option sales tax and the destination Iowa grant. And then item uh 13 is accepting work and ordering payment for the construction of the high line uh trail. That's the final payment uh there. And that money is coming from the land and water uh construction grant and the destination Iowa grant along with the local option sales tax.