Members Present:  Mayor Kurt Wolf and Councilmember’s, Matt Valentyn, Verdis Flaten and Lisa Karsten

Members Absent: Jeff  Lang

Others Present:   Becky Kuball City Clerk, Dave Osborne, Police Dan Morris, Jack Schwichtenberg, Steve Nordmeier, Mark Morris, Loren Dahle, Troy Dahle, Morey Schaefer.

A regular meeting of the Morristown City Council was called to order on Monday, 
March 1, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at 402 Division Street South by Mayor Kurt Wolf.

The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.

Motion by Karsten seconded by Valentyn and motion carries to approve the minutes of the regular meeting held on February 1, 2010 and Special Work Session held on February 22 as written and February 16, 2010 with corrections. 

Financial Report: No report.

Motion by Karsten seconded by Valentyn and carried unanimously to approve the Police Report and schedule for March 2010.
 

Fire Department: Still working on Tanker hopefully will get it painted this week. The Fireman’s Dance is April 10th.

Motion by Valentyn seconded by Flaten and carried unanimously to accept the Fire Department Report as given.
Leon Gregor, came in July asking for a Mandatory contribution, turns out audit was not right and the total contribution should have been $23,618

Zoning Board Report: Zoning Board is looking at the ordinances that need some clarification and working on making some changes.

Comments from citizens present:
Schwichtenberg suggested only one monthly meeting to cut back on city expenses. 
Nordmeier gave an update on the baseball irrigation system.  Baseball association would like to draw up a letter to send to the school district about the school not taking care of the field and give it to the council to forward it onto the school.
Baseball Association is paying for the light at the ball park.
Fundraiser on April 3rd at the legion, mulligan stew and chili all you can eat for $5.00

Loren Dahle questioned if we had the radon gas test retested. It was stated it was, but we had not received the results yet.

Motion by Karsten and seconded by Valentyn and carried unanimously to pay the claims and accounts and the late claims as printed.

Police car replacement tabled until next meeting.

B-Top Grant Wolf stated that a lot of cities are hesitant to go forward with this grant, due to the fact no one knows what the cost will be. Grant is tabled until a later date; Wolf will give updates as he gets them.

Audit: Morey Schaefer from Abdo, Eick and Meyer gave the audit report. Auditors were glad to see the microfiche checks, double checks on financials. Need to accept an out of state travel policy which we have already done. State aid needs to be paid within 30 days of receipt.

Motion by Flaten seconded by Valentyn and carried unanimously to accept the audit report as given.

Karsten questioned the inoperable vechile ordinance the city has. Karsten wonders what is considered inoperable. Inoperable has to be able to run and have current tabs on. Osborne said that they are enforcing this year round. Osborne stated that the mobile home park has quite a few of non licensed vehicles in the park. If not enforced, it will lead to health hazards and rodents start to live in them. Karsten wondered why they are not given the chance to come to the city council when this is an issue. Osborne stated that they are given a 10 day notice and usually it is taken care of.

Second monthly meeting after much discussion, it was decided to keep both of the monthly city council meetings so that we are not paying late fee and with zoning issues that might arise as the weather starts getting nicer out.

Correspondence and announcements:
Karsten said she will be attending the Highway safety meeting on March 11th. Dahle said he was attending also and thought that Lang was also attending.

Census people are in town, and have a table set up in government room from February 28th until April 19th to help with any community questions about filling out the census forms.

Business Expo is March 9th.

Nordmeier wondered if we heard anymore on the bridge repair on County Road 15. Kuball stated she had not heard anymore on the start date yet.

Motion by Flaten seconded by Karsten and carried unanimously to adjourn. The meeting adjourned at 
8:15 p.m.
 
Becky Kuball
                 City Clerk/Treasurer