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Published March 26, 2014

OB Board of Aldermen actions Thursday Mar. 20

 

OSAGE BEACH - In other business at the March 20 Board of Aldermen meeting:
* City Treasurer Kari Bell was presented with a financial excellence achievement award by Mayor Penny Lyons.

Bell and her department have won the independently-awarded accolade for 14 straight years. She thanked the city staff for their help in preparing the financial statements that led to the award.

* An unusual agreement with Ameren Missouri for the relocation of utilities at Lee C. Fine Airport was approved by the board.

According to Public Works Director Nick Edelman, the Ameren facilities are in the way of the new hangar building.

“We would like to get reimbursed for work to be done by Ameren Missouri from MoDOT (Missouri Department of Transportation) Aviation,” Edelman said in a report to the board.

In order to receive that 90 percent reimbursement, MoDOT requires an agreement between the city and Ameren. The cost of the project is $10,713.40.

Edelman noted that the city does not usually need such agreements, but MoDOT’s reimbursement is dependent on state and federal funds, which in turn requires such an arrangement.

* The board approved a request from Public Works Director Edelman to provide engineering and administrative services to the Osage Beach Special Road District.

The road district has agreed to fund repairs to a portion of Aver Road that was damaged during flooding that occurred in the first week of August 2013. Edelman said run-off from torrential rain fall went over a portion of Aver Road where it meets up with Mace Road and washed out an embankment.

“They (OB road district) would like to utilize city staff in case Aver Road becomes a city street in the future,” Edelman said in a report to the board.

The project will not bring the road up to city standards, Edelman stated, but “this action would need to be taken if the city would accept the road in the future.”

* A supplemental agreement with Crawford, Murphy and Tilly, Inc. for additional land acquisition services at Grand Glaize Airport was given first- and second-reading approval by the board.

“An appraisal was required by MoDOT (Missouri Department of Transportation) that was not originally anticipated to complete the acquisition,” Edelman said in a report to the board. “Title opinions (title search) were also required in this project.”

Edelman noted that MoDOT will reimburse the city 90 percent of the additional cost of $10,115.

* A water tower fencing project was awarded to the apparent low bidder, Ken Kauffman and Sons Excavating, LLC with a bid amount of $5,395.

According to Public Works Director Edelman, the bid came in “drastically under estimate” after modifying the project’s requirements.

“We took out another project from the original project,” Edelman said.

Additional fencing around the Parkview Bay Water Tower will be installed for security purposes, Edelman stated in a report to the board.

* Hutchins Telecom, Inc. was awarded a contract for city park irrigation controllers by a vote of the board. The controllers will cover all three ball fields and soccer fields at the city park at a cost of $6,536.

“Insurance will be reimbursing the city,” Edelman said.

* The purchase of a Ford F-350 for the sewer department - at a cost of $33,337 - and a Ford F-550 dump truck for the street department - at a cost of $50,323 - was approved by the board.

According to Edelman, the city will seek bids for a crane to be attached to the F-350 and a snow plow will be added to the F-550 dump truck. Both vehicles will be purchased through a MoDOT state bid contract with Joe Machens Capitol City Ford.

* A request from Police Chief Todd Davis to purchase equipment for four 2014 Ford Police Interceptor utility vehicles was approved by the board.

“The purchase price for these items is $10,850,“ Davis said in a report to the board.

The vehicles themselves should arrive by April, the police chief noted.

* A last-minute addition to the agenda - a request to purchase 15 handheld radios and a base station from Public Works Director Edelman - was approved by the board.

“There are currently 12 public works trucks that either don’t have radios or have radios that don’t work,” Edelman said in a report to the board. “Also, the base station radio along with the supporting accessories for the public works building is old and needs to be replaced.”

The total cost will be $19,801.40 and will be supplied from three budget line items.

* Second-reading approval was given by the board to an ordinance amending city liquor license requirements. The amendment allows the city clerk to issue time-limited liquor permits “for catering, tasting, or sale by the drink, for consumption on premises” to persons currently holding a retail sale by the drink liquor license.

City Clerk Diann Warner already holds such authority by ordinance for churches, schools, civic and service organizations “for a picnic, bazaar, fair or similar gathering,” according to a earlier report to the board from City Attorney Edward Rucker.

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