REGULAR MEETING

         12/03/07                         

THE GRAND JUNCTION BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN MET ON 12/03/07. PRESENT WERE MAYOR CURTIS LANE,  ALDERMEN JOHN BARRY, FRANK BELL, NICK EDWARDS, PERRY LANE, CHERYL SMITH, AND JERRY SMITH.  AFTER THE ROLL CALL AND PRAYER, THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER.  MINUTES OF THE NOVEMBER MEETING WERE READ AND APPROVED. BILLS PAYABLE WERE APPROVED ON A MOTION MADE BY CHERYL SMITH AND SECONDED BY BARRY.

DEPARTMENT REPORTS:

WATER-SEWER: FRANKLIN STANFORD – ROUTINE.

FIRE: MIKE BRYAN – THERE HAVE BEEN THREE FIRES REPORTED.

MOTION BY JERRY SMITH THAT THE ORDINANCE CONCERNING COLOR-CODING FIRE HYDRANTS BE ACCEPTED ON THE THIRD AND FINAL READING.  SECONDED BY BARRY. PASSED BY A UNANIMOUS VOTE 

MAYOR LANE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT MIKE BRYAN WILL TAKE THE BUILDING INSPECTOR’S TEST IN THE SPRING.  UNTIL THEN HE WILL BE ASSISTED BY A QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL FROM FAYETTE COUNTY.

POLICE REPORT – PAT RYAN.  PERRY LANE SAID THAT THE CITY NEEDS TO HAVE AN OFFICER WHO LIVES IN GRAND JUNCTION. RYAN REPLIED THAT THEY HAVE SUCH A PERSON LINED UP FOR A PART-TIME POSITION.

ALDERMEN REPORTS:

BARRY - TINA EMBREY IS WORKING AT THE LIBRARY THROUGH DECEMBER.

EDWARDS – THINGS HAVE NOT CHANGED MUCH.  NOW HE WANTS TO DECLARE WAR ON LITTER.

CHERYL SMITH – THANKED LARRY JACKSON FOR HEADING THE PARADE COMMITTEE. 

BELL – WILL NEED TO GET MORE MULCH FOR THE PARK NEXT SPRING.

JERRY SMITH – TOLD ABOUT SPRINKLER SYSTEM REQUIREMENT COMING TO FAYETTE COUNTY. RURITAN CLUB IS BUYING A DOOR FOR THE FIRE HOUSE. THE FIRE DEPT. AUXILIARY IS STILL TRYING TO GET GOING.

OLD BUSINESS – MAYOR LANE PRESENTED CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION TO CHERYL SMITH AND MIKE BRYAN FOR THEIR WORK ON THE CHRISTMAS PARADE. 

MAYOR LANE RECOMMENDED THAT THE YARD SALE PERMIT PROCEDURE BE LEFT AS IT IS. THERE WAS GENERAL AGREEMENT. 

AS FOR PERMITS FOR SIGNS, THAT ISSUE WILL AGAIN BE TABLED UNTIL CODES CAN BE CHECKED. 

THE ZONING BOARD NEEDS TO RULE ON ABANDONED BUILDINGS.

THE CITY MUST NOW ADOPT THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PLAN.  THE CITY HAS ALREADY ADOPTED THE COUNTY’S MITIGATION PLAN.  THE ISSUE OF FLOOD INSURANCE WAS TABLED UNTIL NEXT MONTH WHEN THERE WILL BE COPIES FURNISHED.

MAYOR LANE TOLD THE BOARD THAT THE STREET AID FUND HAS A BALANCE OF $12,368.15 AT THIS TIME.  JACKSON ST. AND HARDEMAN ST. SOUTH ARE TWO STREETS IN NEED OF RESURFACING.  MAYOR LANE READ A LETTER FROM BILL CLAYTON WITH ICO POLYMERS OFFERING TO PAY TO HAVE THE STREET IN FRONT OF THE PLANT PAVED IF THE CITY WOULD PAVE IT.  THE CITY WOULD HAVE TO ACCEPT BIDS, THEN LET ICO DONATE THE MONEY TO THE CITY, AND THEN PAY FOR THE PAVING.

CITIZEN CONCERNS:

BOBBY SHELBY:

HE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE PLANNED PLACEMENT OF A COUNTY CONVENIENCE CENTER ACROSS THE STREET FROM HIS HOUSE.  HE FEARED FLIES, INCREASED TRAFFIC, LOSS OF THE LANDING AREA FOR THE EMERGENCY HELICOPTER.

JOHN LOVELESS AGREED WITH SHELBY THAT THE SITE WAS INAPPROPRIATE.

MAYOR LANE THEN SAID THAT HE HAD SPOKEN WITH GENE MILLS, THE SOLID WASTE DIRECTOR OF THE COUNTY.  MR. MILLS AGREED TO HOLD OFF ON THE LOCATION OF THE SITE UNTIL THE ISSUE COULD COME BEFORE THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION. THE MAYOR DID NOT THINK THE CENTER SHOULD BE PLACED WITHIN THE CITY.

THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.