05/07/2007 Special Meeting
FRIEND CITY COUNCIL
MINUTES-SPECIAL MEETING
MAY 7, 2007
Mayor Vossler called the special meeting of the City Council to order at 7:00 p.m. at the City Hall. Advanced notice of the meeting was given by posting notice in three prominent places of business throughout the community, including City Hall. All proceedings shown were taken while the meeting was open to the attendance of the public.
The Mayor, James Vossler, presided and City Clerk, Debbie Gilmer, recorded the proceedings. The following Councilmembers were present: Dan Fricke, Dan Drake, Harlan Schrock, and Dale Lawver. The Clerk, Tammy Sladek, Board Chairperson, Delayne Eberspacher, and Board Members, Al Kimminau, Lance Larsen, Annette Zastrow and Travis Due from Cordova were also in attendance. A quorum being present and the meeting duly convened, the following proceedings were had and done.
As required by the Nebraska Open Meetings Act, Mayor Vossler announced that a copy of the Nebraska Open Meetings Act has been posted on the south door of the City Hall meeting room for all in attendance to review.
The purpose of this special meeting was to discuss details of the Cordova Water Project and the location of the water booster/pumping station. Mayor Vossler asked Patrick Gates, Utilities Superintendent, for comments on this project. Mr. Gates stated that in the beginning stages he, as Water System Operator for Friend, and Rich Robinson, Project Engineer and Vice President with Kirkham Michael Consulting Engineers, requested that the pumping station be located on the north end of property currently owned by Gary and Lori Blatter along Highway 6, at the end of Friend’s service.
Delayne Eberspacher, Chairperson of the Cordova Board, said on August 2, 2006, their Board met with Roger Horner, who was the Mayor at that time, to discuss location options for the station. Initially, placement of the pumping station was planned to be on Bill Stint’s property. In October 2006, plans for the pumping station location changed due to the fact that feeding electricity onto the Stint property would be extremely expensive. The placement was then moved to
After lengthy discussion, it was decided that for the benefit of both communities, Friend and Cordova, providing the Department of Health and Human Services has no objections to changing plans and moving the placement of the pumping station from the Milton property to the north end of the Blatter property, and providing that the City of Friend can acquire the property from Gary and Lori Blatter to be used in part for placement of the pumping station, the Cordova Board members agreed to make this change in their project plans. At this time, no decision was made as to whether Cordova would purchase a portion of this property for the water pumping station from Friend or if leasing would be an option.
Motion was made by Harlan Schrock to allow Patrick Gates, as a representative of the City of Friend, to proceed with purchasing property (Part of the NE ¼ NE ¼ Section 22-8-1, Saline County, Nebraska 1.06 acres) from Gary and Lori Blatter for $10,000. Motion was seconded by Dan Drake. On roll call voting aye, Lawver, Schrock, Drake, Fricke. Nays none. Motion carried.
With no further business to come before the Council, motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Lawver, seconded by Schrock. On roll call voting aye, Drake, Fricke, Schrock, Lawver. Nays none. Meeting adjourned at 7:35 p.m.