The Mason City City Council met on October 1, 2024, at 1:00 PM (transcript timestamp) with all seven members present. The meeting opened with three proclamations, followed by a public forum with no comments, the City Administrator’s monthly report, and action on several items including consent agenda, historic preservation loans, a zoning ordinance amendment, and a code change for electrical inspector qualifications.
All consent items were approved unanimously with the exception of item 15 (Elks building resolutions). Items included:
City Administrator Aaron reported:
And good evening, everyone. Welcome to the regular meeting of uh Mason City City Council. I'm Mayor Bill Schickle. We're delighted to have you with us tonight. This is the meeting for October first of twenty twenty-four. The first order of business is the roll call. Pam, would you call the roll? Adams. Present. Yeshevski. Here. Late them. Lee. Present. Here. Simmons. Present. Let the record reflect that all members are present. Next item of business is the adoption of the agenda. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? So moved. We have a motion. And a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed, same sign. We have three special proclamations tonight. Uh National Planning Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but first the twenty twenty-four fire prevention week. And I'd like to invite Assistant Deputy Chief Randy Ellorn along with the firefighters and deputy chief Aaron Beamer to please step forward at this time to uh accept uh the proclamation. And welcome, firefighters. This is the uh proclamation that I'm honored to present at this time. Uh proclaiming fire prevention week. It'll be next week, October sixth uh through the twelfth. You know, and public safety, firefighting, first responders are, you know, one of the most basic and first responsibilities uh of government. Uh, we're very thankful for our first responders that are uh here this evening. Three out of five fire deaths are occur where there is no working fire alarm. And uh I was uh getting my haircut over at uh great eclipse yesterday, as a matter of fact, and went by the fire department. It says big sign out set fronts. Smoke alarms make them work for you. And so that's the uh idea during uh fire prevention week. We're honored to have with us uh the assistant uh deputy chief along with Aaron Beamer and all of the uh firefighters, and we very much appreciate uh your uh great work, and it's an honor uh, Randy to uh present this uh proclamation to you at this time. Let's show our appreciation. So just a few words on uh fire prevention week as uh Mayor Bill Schickle mentioned, uh smoke detectors make them work for you. It's kind of amazing how many houses there are yet with uh either one or no smoke detectors. So the big push this year is make them work for you. So install them, make sure you have more than one at the various different locations in the in the houses and so on, test them monthly and so on, change the battery at least annually, and then every 10 years replace the whole unit. The technology gets better every year and so on, so they're gonna work more and more for us and so on. As long as there's a battery in there, it's a working unit, it works 24-7, and together we can make a big difference in saving lives. Thank you. Next we have a proclamation for community planning month.