The Sioux City City Council met on September 15, 2025, to discuss a consent agenda, a major property acquisition for downtown redevelopment, a street vacation request, an alley collection strategy, and other routine items. The meeting included public comments and extensive deliberation on several items.
That was weird. Yeah, I heard more. Here. Oh, Kane. Here. Chainer. Here. That's water standard. Stand for a moment of silent career, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Under the small library. We have no proclamations. We have no interviews, so we'll go to the consent agenda items two through 11 C. You can consider to pass unanimously, unless a separate roll call vote is requested by a council member. If you want to speak on an item, please come up as I read that item. If you want to speak on an item not on the agenda, please come up under citizen concerns and always remember to state your feet for the record. I'll move the consent agenda. Second. Two is a reading of the September 8th City Council minutes. Three is a motion approving Drew Parvoo for the to the environmental advisory board. Four is a resolution appointing Teresa Fitch's interim assistant city manager. Five is a resolution awarding a purchase order to IState Truck Center for five vehicles with landscape dump and plow for the streets division. Six are actions relating to street closures. A is a resolution temporarily closing. Sections of Grandview Boulevard and 13th Street on October 3rd for the Bishop Heel and Homecoming Parade. B is a resolution temporarily closing various streets in the Morningside area on September 29th for the East High Homecoming Parade. C is a resolution temporarily closing a section of West 19th Street on September 25th for the West High Homecoming Parade. Mayor. Yes. I forgot. I wanted to ask a question back on five. Okay. And Spiro, I don't know if this is a question for you or who would maybe be able to direct this to. I look, I'm glad that we're getting trade-in on these vehicles. I know nothing about the vehicles that we are as far as the numbers of what we're trading in on that. Um but I did want I did wonder, you know, if these are 200,000 vehicles, is a good trade in value seven grand a piece. I mean, it would would they get more at auction? Do we not want to worry about that? Again, I'm I'm ignorant. I'm just asking the question. I could probably I think Jeff these come with plows, you're selling them with the plows. So first question. Yeah. Uh the value that we're getting on was about what I estimated. Uh the engines with the amount of hours that they have on them plus the miles, really take them pretty much to their B10 life, their usable life before they need uh a major overhaul or rebuild. Uh part two of that is the condition of the bodies themselves, are a little lackluster if you've seen them around. Yeah. So right where we're at is right where we got offered was what I would expect to get out of Gov deals in this situation. Okay. I I look like I said, I trust you, I'm just surprised that expensive a vehicle, and I understand we deal more on you know the the amount of hours and then the expectancy of you know 10 years or how after however often we want to rotate through, and I know we're not gonna just be upgrading just to upgrade, but it just seems like a pretty drastic difference in my opinion. Um the only thing that I could yes contribute to maybe a higher uh trade offer would be the miles and conditioned overall when they're with their traded in.