REGULAR MEETING

          09/14/09

ROLL CALL:

PRESENT – ALDERMEN FRANK BELL, NICK EDWARDS, JAMES HOLDER, PERRY LANE, CHERYL SMITH, AND JERRY SMITH.  ABSENT: MAYOR CURTIS LANE.

PRAYER:  JAMES HOLDER

CALL TO ORDER:  VICE-MAYOR CHERYL SMITH

MINUTES OF AUGUST MEETINGS:  READ BY BILLIE GATEWOOD AND APPROVED.

EXPENDITURES:  READ BY VICE-MAYOR SMITH AND PASSED ON A MOTION MADE BY PERRY LANE   AND SECONDED BY HOLDER.

DEPARTMENT REPORTS:

WATER/SEWER:  BELL REPORTED THAT THE DEPARTMENT COMPLETED THE HOOK-UP FOR THE DOLLAR STORE AND HAVE BEEN DOING A LOT OF REPAIRS. 

HOLDER COMPLIMENTED THE DEPARTMENT ON TWO SUCCESSIVE SCORES OF 100 ON STATE INSPECTIONS.

POLICE DEPARTMENT:  CHERYL SMITH READ THE STATS. 

FIRE DEPARTMENT:  JERRY SMITH REPORTED THAT THE SIGN IS BEING MADE FOR THE FIRE STATION, AND THEY HAVE THE LETTERING FOR THE TANKER. THE BOOT DRIVE WAS SUCCESSFUL.   FIRE PREVENTION WEEK IS OCT. 4-10.

HOLDER ANNOUNCED THAT THE METHODIST CHURCH PLANNED TO RECOGNIZE THE VOLUNTEER FIREMEN DURING CHURCH SERVICE ON OCT. 4 AND INVITE THEM TO A MEAL AFTERWARD AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

CODE ENFORCEMENT:  NO REPORT WAS GIVEN.  THERE WAS DISCUSSION OF THE NEED FOR ACTION IN GETTING PROPERTY OWNERS TO MAINTAIN THEIR PROPERTY.  BILLIE GATEWOOD WILL SUPPLY EACH ALDERMAN WITH A COPY OF THE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE ORDINANCE, AND THE ISSUE WILL BE DEALT WITH AT THE OCTOBER MEETING. 

ALDERMEN REPORTS:

HOLDER:  A NEW REFRIGERATOR HAS BEEN INSTALLED AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.  THE FLOORS NEED STRIPPING.  GARBAGE CANS STILL NEED TO BE REPLACED.

EDWARDS:  HE READ A LIST OF PROPERTIES NEEDING ATTENTION AND SUGGESTED THAT THE POLICE WATCH FOR LITTERERS AND WRITE THEM CITATIONS.

PERRY LANE:  HE HAD CHECKED ON CD RATES.  THE MAXIMUM INTEREST HE COULD GET WOULD BE 2.25%.  THE MAYOR WILL MAKE THE FINAL DECISION ON INVESTING SOME MONEY FROM THE GENERAL FUND IN A CD.

COMMUNITY CONCERNS:

DAVID VINYARD REPORTED THAT THE LIBRARY HAS TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS:  SANDRA SMITH AND SHARON NORRIS.  THE LIBRARY IS GETTTING A NEW FRONT DOOR PAID FOR BY DONATIONS. 

SARA SARTAIN SAID THAT OLD STORES ON MADISON NEED TO BE REPAIRED.

JOHN MCKINNIE ASKED IF PLEASANT GROVE CHURCH COULD COLLECT DONATIONS ONE DAY AT HIGHWAY 57 AND TIPPAH ST. AS THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD DONE.  PERRY LANE TOLD HIM THAT HE WOULD CHECK ON THE LEGALITY AND REPORT BACK AT THE OCTOBER MEETING.

ADJOURNMENT

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