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November 10, 2009 Regular Meeting

CITY OF ANDERSON

REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING

November 10, 2009

ANDERSON CITY HALL

 

Present:                                                                       Staff:

Keith Fetzer, Mayor                                                     Darla Coghill, City Clerk

Samantha Thompson                                       Asta Reh, Asst. Clerk

Paul Dempster            

Tina McPherson                                                                                    

Tom Howard  

 Karen Southwood                                               Guests:       

                                                                        Scott Thompson          

                                                                        Jon Bailey

                                                                        Dave Talerico 

                                                                        Peggy Talerico

                                                                        Julie Morris

                                                                        Chip Morris

 

                                                           

                                               

                                                                                                 

ROLL CALL                          The Regular Meeting of the Anderson City Council was called to order by Mayor Keith Fetzer at 6:30 PM.

 

 

AGENDA APPROVAL          M/S K. Southwood /P. Dempster moved to approve the agenda.

                                                No further discussion.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

 

Minutes                                   M/S K. Southwood /S. Thompson moved to approve the minutes from the following meeting:  Regular Meeting, August 11, 2009, Special Meeting, October 20, 2009.    No further discussion.  Motion passed unanimously. 

 

Canvass of Elections              M/S P. Dempster/T. Howard moved to certify the election as follows;

The following winners were declared as;

 

Seat A                          Keith Fetzer

Seat B                          Karen Southwood

Seat C                          Thomas Howard

Seat D                          Cynthia Wright

Seat F                           Tina Mc Pherson         

 

 

                                               

                                               

 

Clerk Coghill stated that there were two absentee and two question ballots.  One question ballot voter was ineligible. 

There was no further discussion.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

 

 

Oath of Officers                     Clerk Coghill swore in the following council members:

 

                                                Keith Fetzer                 2 Year Seat

                                                Karen Southwood        2 Year Seat

                                                Thomas Howard          2 Year Seat

                                                Tina McPherson           1 Year Seat

 

 

Correspondence                     Mayor Fetzer reported on the following, he received information from Golden Valley on doing a solar project that would help the city and the school cut energy costs.  Also has received 4 confirmations of voluntary surrender of lots in the Northern Lights Subdivision, 4 that there has been no response from.  One person has requested an extension and has paid the extension fee and one that has purchased the land out right.  The purchase price was $10,000.00.  Community and Regional Affairs have been going over the city’s procedure manual and they are codifying them for the city. New council member manual should be completed soon.

 

Financial Reports                   M/S /K. Southwood /S. Thompson moved to receive the financial reports for October 2009.   Motion passed unanimously.              

 

 

Roll Call

                                                            Paul Dempster                                     yes

                                                                  Tina McPherson                           yes

                                                            Tom Howard                                       yes

                                                                  Samantha Thompson                                yes

                                                            Keith Fetzer                                        yes

                                                            Karen Southwood                               yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bills to be Paid                        M/S K. Southwood /T. Howard moved to approve the bills to be paid for October 2009. No further discussion.   Motion passed unanimously.

           

 

Roll Call

Paul Dempster                                    yes

Tina McPherson                                  yes                    

                                                            Tom Howard                                                              yes

                                                                  Samantha Thompson                                yes

                                                            Keith Fetzer                                        yes

                                                                  Karen Southwood                         yes

 

Public Access                              None

 

Council comments                  None

 

 

Reports

 

Denali Borough

Mayor                                     Dave Talerico wanted to thank all council members who ran for council seats.  He also thanked the city staff for all of their help.  Dave also reported that Golden Valley was interested in putting up solar panels that would heat water for the school and the city buildings.  It could also go as far as the park to help cut costs there.  Dave thanked Jon Bailey and Scott Thompson for all their help on this project.  The first stage would be a feasibility study.  Dave has been working with Ron from Golden Valley on this.   It wouldn’t benefit the borough at all, but it certainly would help the City of Anderson and the Anderson school.

                                                Dave also reported on amending the funding for the brush truck at the next meeting for the borough.  Another concern is the budget for the next year.  Everyone is tightening things up and I think the first thing to go will be the revenue sharing.  We should be ok for the upcoming year.

                                                The school board has some empty seats that need to be filled if anyone is interested.

                                                 

 

             

Department Reports             

                                               

                                                Fire Department: Karen Southwood reported that the new garage doors on the fire department have been installed.

                                                Health & Social  Tina McPherson reported that there has been interest shown in the old clinic.  She will know more after the first of the year.

                                                 

 

Election of Officers

Mayor                                     M/S T. McPherson/S. Thompson to appoint Keith Fetzer as the Mayor of Anderson.  There was no discussion.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

                                                                                    Roll Call

                                                            Tom Howard                          yes

                                                            Paul Dempster                                    yes

                                                            Tina McPherson                     yes

                                                            Karen Southwood                   yes

                                                            Keith Fetzer                            yes

                                                            Samantha Thompson             yes

 

 

Department Appointment      Mayor Fetzer moved to appoint Samantha Thompson as vice mayor and the rest of the departments will remain as they were last year.

Old Business

 

Resolution 10-01

Land Extension                       M/S K. Southwood / T. Howard moved to approve the resolution. No further discussion. Motion passed unanimously.

 

                                                                                    Roll Call

 

                                                            Tom Howard                          yes

                                                            Keith Fetzer                            yes

                                                            Paul Dempster                                    yes

                                                            Tina McPherson                     yes

                                                            Karen Southwood                   yes

                                                            Samantha Thompson             yes

                                               

New Business

 

Resolution 10-02

Certified Financial

Statement                                M/S K. Southwood/T. Howard moved to accept the Certified Financial Statement for year ending June 30, 2009.  There was no discussion.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

Roll Call

                                                            Paul Dempster                                     yes

                                                            Tom Howard                                       yes

                                                                  Tina McPherson                           yes

                                                            Keith Fetzer                                        yes

                                                            Samantha Thompson                          yes

                                                            Karen Southwood                               yes                              

                                               

Resolution 10-03

Solar Heating

Funding request                      M/S T. Howard/ P. Dempster moved to accept the request for state funding to build solar thermal heating project.  There was no further discussion.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

Community Development

Block Grant                            M/S T. Howard/ K. Southwood moved to proceed with block grant application if the city qualifies. There was discussion if the city even qualified for this grant.  The city clerk will check into and if the city does qualify it will be put on the agenda again.

 

 

 

Adjournment  M/S T. McPherson / K. Southwood moved to adjourn the meeting @ 7:15 PM.

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