Meeting Minutes for July 18, 2005

OFFICIAL COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
JULY 18, 2005

A regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Harbor Beach was held on Monday,
July 18, 2005 at City Hall. The meeting was called to order at 2:30 p.m. by Mayor Swartz.

Present: Kleinknecht, Schelke, Semp, Wood and Mayor Swartz
Finance Officer Youatt and Engineer Bergdolt

Absent: None

There were no corrections or additions to the agenda.

It was moved by Semp, seconded by Schelke to approve the minutes of the July 5, 2005 Council meeting as presented. Motion carried. 5 yeas.

Citizen Comment: Ed Ramsey stated the Maritime Festival was a great event again this year.

OLD BUSINESS: Council reviewed bids received for the 2005 Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation project. Bids received were from Insituform Technologies for $ 211,803 and from Utility Services Authority, LLC for $ 314,518. The estimate from Wade-Trim was for $ 295,000. It was moved by Schelke, seconded by Wood to accept the bid from Insituform Technologies for
$ 211,803 as submitted. Motion carried. 5 yeas.

Council discussed the five (5) dangerous buildings which were reviewed by Council and which testimony was received at the July 5, 2005 Council meeting. Four of the buildings received exterior building inspections and one received both exterior and interior inspections. Youatt stated that it is important to have interior inspections done on all buildings in order for Council to have sufficient information to adequately address the issue. Youatt recommended that Council contact City Attorney John Ferris to go to court to obtain a court order for interior inspections on the four dangerous buildings. It was moved by Schelke, seconded by Wood to request City Attorney John Ferris to ask the court for a court order for interior inspections of buildings located at 141/143 South Huron Avenue, 704/706 South Huron Avenue, 403 Lytle Avenue and 419
North Huron Avenue. Motion carried. 5 yeas.

NEW BUSINESS: Resolution # 2005-20, “Election Equipment Grant Application,” was presented to Council. The Resolution would authorize the City Clerk to apply for a State Grant to purchase new election voting equipment under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) from the State Bureau of Elections, Secretary of State. It was moved by Semp, seconded by Kleinknecht to adopt Resolution # 2005-20 as presented. Motion carried. 5 yeas.

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Engineer Report: With execution of notice of award, Wade-Trim will have Insituform Technologies execute the appropriate documents for the Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation project.
The company will begin the work on sewer main relining after the Labor Day weekend. The project is expected to take approximately 3 to 4 weeks to complete. Final design plans and specifications have been submitted to the DEQ for the Sanitary Sewer Overflow Retention Basin project. A review letter from DEQ dated June 21, 2005 with five minor items to be addressed was received.

Finance Officer Report: The Maritime Festival was successful this year despite the rain. Al Kleinknecht and Ron Wruble did a great job in organizing the festival as in past years. A meeting will be held soon to review the festival and to look at areas for improvement. Looking into part-time help at the water plant due to increased water production. A request to DEQ will be made regarding management of the dredge disposal site to seek approval for the work completed to date, which includes pumping out the standing water, growing vegetation to cover the site and installation of gates restricting access to the site. We also received a letter from DEQ regarding need for improvement in the City’s Industrial Pre-treatment Program (IPP). The Sewer Committee will be reviewing the issue. We received a letter of thanks from the Kincardine officials for their recent visit. Registration for the annual MML convention is coming up.

Council Reports: Councilmember Kleinknecht stated that although the number of riders in the
professional jet ski competition were down this year to about 80 from 148 last year, the number of racers in the Invitational were up from about 60 last year to 108 this year. The web-cast was a great success this year. Councilmember Semp reminded the public of the July 26th meeting regarding the proposal from the Coast Guard to solarize the light at the lighthouse. Mayor Swartz stated that there were about 55 campers from the Knights of Columbus at North Park this past weekend.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:15 p.m.

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Tom Youatt, City Clerk