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Published September 3, 2014

Lake Ozark Board of Aldermen actions Tuesday Aug. 26

 

LAKE OZARK - In other business at the August 26 Board of Aldermen meeting:
* An ordinance prohibiting the placement of commercial trash cans and dumpsters on city property and right-of-ways was given second-reading approval by the board.

First-reading approval had been granted at the board’s August 12 meeting.

Alderman Betsey Browning asked if any business owners had contacted City Hall about the proposed ordinance. City Administrator Dave Van Dee and City Clerk Rachel Kelley both said there had been no inquiries from anyone about the proposal.

Alderman Judith Neels had earlier questioned the 60-day deadline for businesses to conform to the new regulation, but Mayor Johnnie Franzeskos had said that if business owners were attempting to comply, an extension to the deadline could be granted.

* No one spoke out either for or against a proposed six-month moratorium on wireless telecommunication facilities (cell phone towers) within the city limits during a public hearing.

The hearing was then closed and aldermen went straight to the ordinance proposing the six-month moratorium. The board gave first- and second-reading approval.

The moratorium is in response to a state bill signed into law in March that “will limit the city of Lake Ozark’s authority to regulate the placement, construction and modification of wireless telecommunication facilities within the city …”

The bill allows municipalities the authority to impose a moratorium up to six months “provided that reasonable ground and good cause exist for said moratorium …”

According to the ordinance itself, the moratorium will give the city “the necessary time to review and revise the provisions (of an earlier telecommunications ordinance) to ensure consistency with (the state bill) …”

* The board awarded a contract to B&H Cleaning Services, LLC for cleaning City Hall and the accompanying police station. The contract calls for $130 service once a week with chemicals, and $120 a week without chemicals. Additional days can be added for $60 a day per week.

The contract also states that the city will provide all paper goods such as toilet paper, paper towels and “Kleenex.”

* The re-appointment of Todd Painter and Joe Hoffman to the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission was approved by the board as well as the re-appointment of Dick Woodford to the city’s Board of Adjustment.

* A request from Ozark Yacht Club for a Sunday liquor license for a separate location on its property was approved by the board.

According to City Clerk Rachel Kelley, the license is not a caterer’s permit, simply another liquor license in their name.

“The State Liquor Control (Board) said they need a separate license since it’s at a different location,” Kelley stated in a report to the board.

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