The Taylor City Council held its regular meeting on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. in the Taylor Municipal Building. Council Chairman Douglas A. Geiss called the meeting to order. Six council members were present (Charley Johnson, Angie Winton, Douglas Geiss, Jill Brandana, Lindsey Rose, Tina Daniels), with one seat vacant. The meeting included approval of numerous routine purchases, a closed session for a risk management claim, two failed votes to fill the vacant council seat, and setting of budget hearing dates.
All items were approved unanimously unless noted. Key items included:
Councilwoman Brandana supported by Councilwoman Daniels. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say yes. Yes. Yes. All is opposed, say no. Yes, this habit motion carried. Item 5.2 is a motion to approve the acceptance of the minutes of the meeting held February 20th, 2024 and dispense with oral reading. Motion. Support. Motion by Councilwoman Wittens supported by Councilman Johnson. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All is in favor say yes. Yes. Yes. All is opposed, say no. The yes is have it motion carried. Before turning over to the mayor, uh, I'm remiss in um acknowledging uh the gentleman sitting to my left uh who is uh acting corporation counsel. Um like to introduce yourself. Uh we welcome you to today's council meeting. Well, thank you very much. I'm Randall Pentuck, filling in for Ed, who sent me a text this evening saying that he's now out of the hospital and is mending nicely so very good here, and thank you for being here. Um that brings us to Mayor's communication. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I did have one last minute add-on. I apologize for that. Um, but it was uh it's a motion to receive and file the invoice from universal laundry machinery, current vendor for a new gas dryer at DPW in the amount not to exceed $7,989 through various capital outlay accounts. Motion support. Motion by Councilwoman Witton supported by councilwoman Brandana. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor say yes. Yes, all those opposed say no. Yes, it's have a motion carried. Mr. Mayor, anyway. Mr. Chairman, that's all I have, but I do want to let everyone know that tomorrow we're gonna uh have a meeting with uh both uh golf courses and the uh restaurants in the bars. We're gonna um sit down and have some discussions about what we can do to give people to come enjoy our places during the NFL draft, which is coming up soon. Uh, we're gonna have hundreds of thousands of people in the area, and we want to take advantage of that. So uh we'll post it all over Facebook, our social media when we come up with a game plan, but that's something we really want to look forward to do. All right, thank you. Any further open business? If not, we'll go to the regular agenda. Item 7.1 is a motion to approve Smiley Tire Company Sole Source, lowest qualified bidder for tire purchases and amount not to exceed $2,692 funded through general fund fire department repairs and maintenance. Make a motion.