July Council Minutes
July 11, 2018
Those Present: Councilmembers Matt Argyle, DeLoy Kunz, Clerk Lynette Smith, Maintenance Supervisor Doug Thompson, Mayor Stephan Waechtler, Gary Teuscher and James Teuscher CPA’s, City Attorney Adam McKenzie
Meeting called to order: Invocation:
Meeting postponed until July 19th due to lack of a quorum.
July 19, 2018
Those Present: Councilmembers DeLoy Kunz, Greg Kunz, Marty Nate, Clerk Lynette Smith, Maintenance Supervisor Doug Thompson, Mayor Stephan Waechtler, City Attorney Adam McKenzie, Mauria Teuscher CPA
Meeting called to order: 7:05 pm Invocation: Councilmember Marty Nate
The chair entertained a motion from Councilmember Marty Nate the council accepts the published agenda. Councilmember Greg Kunz seconded the motion. All were in favor and the motion carried the council.
Minutes from June 5, 2018 regular council meeting were read aloud by Clerk Smith. The chair entertained a motion from councilmember DeLoy Kunz to accept the minutes as read. Councilmember Greg Kunz seconded the motion. All were in favor and the motion carried.
City Attorney Adam Mckenzie was present to discuss options of creating a new ordinance for digging around the road to install utilities. Options discussed were to impose a fee for tearing up the road to give more incentive to the home owner to fix correctly and quickly. Adam mentioned we may need to have a public hearing to impose the fee on the ordinance and that we need to make sure we stay within the provisions of the adopted building codes. Councilmember DeLoy Kunz mentioned changing the planning and zoning ordinance to require larger lot sizes. Adam suggested updating that Ordinance #27 and he will look at updating our Parking Ordinance #50. Councilmember DeLoy Kunz made the motion for Councilmembers Marty Nate and Greg Kunz to go and visit two homes within the city that are violating ordinances and they will discuss the situation to remedy the problem with the homeowners. Councilmember Greg Kunz seconded the motion. All were in favor and the motion carried the council.
Mauria Teuscher of Gary H. Teuscher, CPA’s office came to present the Audit for Fiscal Year 2016-2017 with the council. The city is in good shape. Councilmember Marty Nate made the motion to make transfers from the Water and Sewer funds to payback the General Fund for years 2016 & 2017 in the amounts of $31,979.76 in the Water Fund and $58,648.66 in the Sewer Fund. Councilmember DeLoy Kunz seconded the motion. All were in favor and the motion carried.
The planning for Twin Creeks was reviewed and Councilmember Matt Argyle has ordered and taken care of the luncheon. Georgetown 1st Ward is beginning the breakfast at 7:00 am and the Waechtler family is taking care of the dinner which will begin at 6:00 pm.
Mayor Waechtler would like to install some flashing LED lights to put on the speed limit signs on Stringtown and experiment to see if it will get people’s attention enough to actually slow down. DeLoy will check on some flashing speed signs with the County to see if we can get some in Georgetown for a while.
Councilmember DeLoy Kunz mentioned the weeds need to be mowed again up Stringtown and the trees to be trimmed.
Councilmember Marty Nate mentioned she’d like to make the whole box where the mulch is into a large sand box and she has spoken with someone about making some toy diggers to put in there and then move the mulch to the slide. Doug mentioned that he has to remove the merry go round from the school and wonders if we may need to remove the City’s soon too.
Councilmember Greg Kunz mentioned the storage unit across from the City Hall is being turned into an apartment building and suggested that the building needs two separate hookups for two homes.
Police Report: Officer Martinez made 14 contacts for the month of June. He has to take the month of July off due to his retirement but will be here for Twin Creeks Days and will resume work in August.
Maintenance Report: Doug gave his report for the month of June stating that he has been busy! He is going to re-fence around the water spring because we had water samples returned with E. coli. The maintenance department has hired Matt Raczak for the part-time position and they learned that he has to be employed for at least 6 months before he can start taking the tests and get licensing and the land app test would be the last one he can take. He has met with Sunrise Engineering about the water upgrades and they will be attending our next meeting. He has also had Rocky Mountain Valves to come and look at our PRV’s and Rain for Rent will be looking at fixing the well house that has settled at the sewer ponds.
Office Business: There were 17 delinquent water and sewer accounts for the month of June and Lynette will be out of the office on Tuesday, July 24th.
The chair entertained a motion from Councilmember DeLoy Kunz for the council to approve checks and vouchers for the month of June 2018 in the amount of $17,370.38 in the general fund, $9000.81 in the water fund, and $20,184.37 in the sewer fund, with all funds totaling $46,555.56. Councilmember Marty Nate seconded the motion. All were in favor and motion carried.
The chair entertained a motion from Councilmember DeLoy Kunz that council adjourns from the July 2018 council meeting at 9:30 pm. Councilmember Greg Kunz seconded the motion. All were in favor and the motion carried the council.
Respectfully submitted,
Lynette Smith, City Clerk-Treasurer