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Columbia Council special called meeting 23 Jun 2016 - Report
Click on headline for complete story with photo(s) By Ed Waggener The Columbia City Council acted decisively to grant all the city's employees a 75¢ an hour pay increase, their first in four years, and then approved a budget for fiscal year 2016-2017 which appropriates $460,454. for the General Government, $1,123,129 for Police, $90,410 for Fire, $327,996 for Sanitation, and $27,488 for Parks and Recreation. The Council also had a first reading for an ordinance closing some streets on an 1873 plat in the Fairgrounds, in preparation for a purchase of the property from the VFW by Lindsey Wilson College. In the preceding special called meeting, Thursday, June 16, 2016, council members considered three options introduced by Mayor Curtis Hardwick: 1) any raise at all after three years with zero raises, 2) a two or a three percent-per-hour raise or 3) a cents-per-hour amount. In the Thursday, June 23, Special called meeting, with Council Members present, and Mayor Curtis Hardwick presiding, the meeting room was packed with City employees - at the meeting on their own time - hoping for a satisfactory result from the meeting. And they got it. The council agreed to a 75¢ per hour raise across the board. Council Members talked with constituents and began the meeting with the council unevenly divided over whether to grant a 60¢ and hour or a 75¢. Council Member Craig Lasley proposed the higher amount, and quickly drew a second by Council Member Mark Harris. On the roll call vote, Linda Waggener, Charles Grimsley, and even Ron Rogers, who spoke first for a 60¢ an hour increase, affirming the Lasley/Harris proposal. Craig Dean voted no, but later added that he was okay with the higher amount. By using an across the board hourly increase, the lowest paid employees gained just a bit of parity with the highest paid ones. After pay raise confirmed, budget passes unanimously After passing the raise amount, the second reading was given of Ordinance No. 220.166 adopting the full budget including the seventy-five-cent an hour raise by estimating revenues and resources and appropriating funds for the operation of City Government. The motion to accept the total budget was made by Council Member Rogers with a second by Council Member Waggener. The vote was unanimous, with Council Members Craig Dean, Craig Lasley, Charles Grimsley, and Mark D. Harris joining in affirmation. The budget anticipates comfortable fund balances at the end of the fiscal year, on June 30, 2017: General Fund, $1,239,778; Garbage Fund, $245,046; Utilities $2,656,176; $1,000 in the Payroll Tax fund. The budget is very conservative on anticipated revenues from Alcoholic Beverage Sales, anticipating $48,000 and allocating $48,000 in expenditures. Council hears Fairgound Street Closing Ordinance No vote was required on the second agenda item, but the reading and discussion provided insight on the progressing Adair County Fairgrounds sale to Lindsey Wilson College. The main entry off Highway 206/Fairgrounds Street will not be changed. The ordinance gives the Mayor the right to sign off on closure of old streets within the property after a second reading agreement. A vote will come following the second reading. City Attorney Marshall Loy gave this first reading of Ordinance No.110-41: "An ordinance closing various unimproved rights of way, alleys and streets as dedicated on a plat dated May 31, 1917 and labeled Fairground Addition of Record in Deed Book 24, Page 640 in the office of the County Clerk of Adair County, Kentucky, and being located in the City of Columbia, Kentucky." Mark Coleman, LWC Vice President for Administration and Finance, presented additional clarification of this request for all old roads within property to be closed - except for that acre belonging to the City on which the park exists, that is for a later discussion - giving legally required time for all interested persons to agree on closure of all existing streets within the boundaries of the Fairgrounds interior. Council Member Waggener asked for news on the park transition. Coleman said the college is just trying to take one step at a time and that no action will be taken other than this question on the old deed until after the 2016 Adair County Fair, which begins Saturday, June 25. Joe Hare, commander of the VFW, will be able to provide more details, Coleman said, and pointed out that he spoke solely for the interest of the Lindsey Wilson College. The final item of business had to do with getting blacktop from the state and was read by the City Attorney. Resolution No. 2016-02: "Resolution adopting and approving the execution of a Municipal Aid Co-op program contract between the Incorporated City and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Transportation Cabinet, Department of Rural and Municipal Aid for the Fiscal Year Beginning July 1, 2016, as provided in the Kentucky Revised Statutes and accepting all streets referred to therein as being streets which are a part of the Incorporated City." The vote was unanimous in favor of the co-op program. The motion to adjourn was made by Council Member Rogers, with a second by Council Member Lasley, with a unanimous vote, and the June 2016 work of the Council was completed. The next meeting is Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 6pmCT. The Columbia City Council meets each first Monday except for Holiday Mondays and then it meets the next workday afterward. This story was posted on 2016-06-25 11:28:33
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