August 5, 2024
The City of Webster Police Department gave the green light Monday to purchase two 2024 Ford Police Interceptor SUVs from Stiver’s Waukee Ford Lincoln for $123,957. 62.
Police Chief Shiloh Mork told the Webster City Council on Monday that his branch is looking to upgrade “the most problematic vehicles,” one of which was out of service over the weekend.
He said the department will exchange two Tahoes from the acquisition process.
The city council buys it.
It also involves various expenses for ongoing projects.
1. A bid of $324,119 was accepted from Trachte, LLC, of Oregon, Wisconsin, to supply a cabinet for the Reisner substation.
2. Brink Constructors, Inc. , of Rapid City, South Dakota, awarded the contract to build the Reisner substation. Brink’s bid was $2,011,346. 54.
3. Se awarded Watts the contract for the reconstruction of a kV transmission line
Waverly, Nebraska Electric Company. La Watts’ bid was $1,944,606. 51.
4. WESCO Distribution, Des Moines, awarded the contract to procure transmission line fabrics (engineered laminated wood poles) to Webster City Municipal Utilities with its bid of $1,261,618.
5. RESCO (Rural Electrical Supply Cooperative) won the key fabric contract for Phase 1 of electrical distribution improvements. RESCO will offer $278,420; submitted an election bid of $282,070.
The council approved the first reading to amend the city’s Code of Ordinances for the city’s enforcement authority regarding the condition of safe properties.
The board took no action when it came time to accept a $48,814 offer from Mid Iowa Site Services of Fort Dodge to demolish a property at 614 First Street.
Councilman Logan Welch said Jones Rock’s competitive bid
This attention has sparked a broader debate about the merits of attempting to rehabilitate the layout rather than demolish it and remove it from the tax rolls.
In the end, the council took up to 60 days to make sure they wanted to spend about $50,000 to demolish the property.
The pile of wood chips at the Street Department TreeArray at 100 East Ohio Street has once again been a topic of discussion. A year ago, the chimney got clogged and the city closed the door to advertising users.
The city canceled the purchase of a nearly half-million-dollar burner to incinerate wood from the site; Now, the pile is developing and the city needs someone to grind and/or ship the resulting materials.
“Over the years, staff has noted an increase in the number of curtains, resulting in annual tree shredding expenses of more than $30,000,” the board document states. “This branch does not get rid of the curtains, it simply grinds them into smaller wood chips, leaving the city with years and years of curtains. After our wood chip smoking challenge last fall, we were informed through the DNR (Iowa Department of Natural Resources) that we settle for too many curtains compared to the amount that comes out of our land through wood chips. To help solve this problem, workers contractors do not have access to the. city landfill and street service personnel began transporting around 9,000 cubic meters of wood chips.
“Last year, $19,274 was spent on stump grinding, leaving a remaining balance of $15,726 for tree mulching. Knowing that this balance would not cover tree mulching for FY23-24, staff decided to move this service to fiscal year 24-25. »
The city is receiving bids to shred piles of brush and logs or shred piles of brush and logs and ship the resulting fabrics off-site.
The council set August 19 at 6:05 p. m. for a public hearing on general bond lending.
The City Council also acquired an asset at 409 Prospect Street from Michael Rockwell for $4,850. The assets, according to the municipal file, have been marked as nuisance assets since 2016.
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