The Independent-News, Volume 119, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 February 1994 — Page 12

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- THE INDEPENDENT NEWS - FEBRUARY 17, 1994

NORTH LIBERTY TOWN COUNCIL MINUTES (continued from Page I) 15, 1994 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and 6.00 to 7:00 p. m . so they may pick up copies, if agreeable, they may sign at this tune or later if they wish to study replat first. Question on status of Farm Center clean up. LaFree waiting on contact from railroad to go ahead because of asbestos. Jeff O'Connor questioned bow far back it would be cleaned and was advised all the way to the property line. David Sheaks questioned Street Supt John Gouker. what could be done about the snow pile on the corner by Gene's station Gouker advised Town does not have a truck to haul snow. Gene to be contacted tn regards to keeping pile down so cars can see around corner. Deputy Marshal Kelly Bussie read the January police report, 2,149 miles, 177.7 gallons gasoline. Copy of report filed with minutes. President Tom Daugherty questioned where was Marshal Burch and was advised he was with his mother as she has some physical problems. Tim Ives complained of the way John Gouker spoke to him at Beth's building when water was froze up. Richard Warner advised he would speak to John about situation. Thomas Daugherty advised he had 1 lead for a volunteer for the DUAN^AKE’S TREE SERVICE TREE REMOVAL TREE TRIMMING STUMP REMOVAL Estimates Phone (219) 936-6546 Plymouth *«»

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Park Board, but had not talked to before meeting Frank Gtnzer was advised we were still collecting information from other ordinances in regards to the water/sewer minimum. Also was advised minutes would be going to Independent-News for monthly publication. Clerk treasurer Paul Williams, Jr., reported the 1993 Town anunal report was sent to the Inde-pendent-News and South Bend Tribune for publication. Also have some proposed utility budgets drated to go into the computer. New computerr set up but a lot of thing* to get entered yet. New system runs the utility bills in 40 minutes compared to IV> hours with the old one. Also cut* payroll time about half. Final Budget summary for Council and if you wish to go over the individual appropriations, the 7 pages will be furnished. These figures to be used at budget time in July. Received $2,926.88 from Trias Cablevision for 3% franchise fee for the year 1993. Suggested that Council set a price for copies of the zoning map. After discussion. Richard Warner made a motion to charge $3.00 per map, second by David Sheaks with a unanimous aye. 1994 is the year to re-establish the Cumulative Capital Development Fund for the years 1995, 1996 and 1997. Motion to advertise the First Notice for March 2nd meeting by Richard Warner, second by David Sheaks with unanimous aye. Claims for approival: NLPH 94-01-01 A 02 - $29,580.00, Town 17151 to 17191 - $65,638.45, Water 10680 to 10714 — $20,229.19, Sewer 5671 to 5695 — $22,698.36. Motion to approve claims by David Sheaks, second by Richard Warner with uananimous aye. Thomas Daugherty reported Corky Neal working on Main Street Program. Hoped to speak with him prior to meeting but missed each other on the calls. Question on radio relay antenna. Nothing from County. Meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m.

by motion of Richard Warner, second by David Sheaks with unanimous aye. Paul Williams. Jr. WALKERTON TOWN COUNCIL MINUTES (continued from Page 1) same time she has asked for s little time so that she can talk to her financial consultants to see how all of this works out with her personal finances. Behr said that it is definitely not s no. Reese said that he assumes that we did not have a strong purchase sgreement with her. one that is binding so that when we get the money we would be able to go ahead with the project. Behr said that we have a purchase agreement with her. that it is in the grant agreement. Behr added that it is a state form and there's a one sentence line on the bottom of the form that says this is a non-binding contract. He said that this does give Mrs. DeSimone the right to reconsider, and the state form probably adds that sentence because it sometimes takes a couple of years to get such a project to come about. Reese said that one of the things he was uncomfortable with, was that the Council did not get a copy of the grant. President Rizek asked if there was a reason why they didn't get a copy of the grant application. Behr responded by saying that he wasn't sure that he had supplied the Council with other grant applications in the past. He said that he could make it his policy to do so. Rizek said that she thinks it would be a good idea to do so in the future since the Coned found out that the sewer grant is different than the way they thought it was going to be. She said that they have a real problem with this, since the applications are done in the Town's name and the Council needs to know how much money they will need to come up with as a grant match or in loans Rizek added that if they don’t have that application in advance, they have no way of knowing when they are expected to come up with an additional large sum of money. Reese asked Behr if he is saying that however the Council votes tonight, to go with the park or not go with the park, Ruth DeSimone will go with however the Council votes. Behr said that that was her indication, that she wants to do what is in the best wishes of the Town. Rizek asked if there were any other questions or discussion. Dave McKee said that as a member of the Interlocal Board he has worked closely with Behr and said that he, himself, took information back to the School Board from time to time so they were aware of what was going on. He asked what kind of feedback the Council was getting from the Park Board. Rizek replied that they did not get any kind of feedback from anyone and wondered if there was a reason for this and why they didn't get information about the grant application. She added that the Council assumed that everything was at a standstill since they hadn’t gotten any information. McKee said that he thought that members of the Park Board were communicating with the Council, and feels that there shouldn't be any reason why future developFOR RENT NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY CENTER AIR CONDITIONED Renting For All Occasions 300 S Main Street Phone 656 4134 HSSJ

menu on the park can't be directly communicated to the Council. Rizek said that the lack of communication had also been brought up st the November meeting with the Interlocal Board. She said that once we have obtained grants, reports need to be done in a timely fashion, as she had received letters about past due reports for the downtown grant. She feels that the Council has a right to expect that reports are sent in on time. Rizek asked if there were any more questions. Reese said that it was s shock to him that we applied for just a grant. He had assumed that we were applying for a grant and monies from Farmers Home Administration. and asked Behr if he was wrong about this. Behr replied that he had had a meeting with Farmers Home last summer, snd his understanding was that we were only asking for a grant application for the north project. Rizek said that it was the Council’s and attorney Holmes understanding that we would try to get grant and loan monies from Fanners Home for the whole project. Rizek said that the Council will have to go to the bond bank now to see about getting a loan. Gordon Hartsell said that he remembered Behr saying that there weren't any grants available. Behr said that the grants that were not available were through the Department of Commerce, and he had tried that using Pioneer Southern as a job creator, but didn’t get anywhere with it. Attorney Holmes said that he knew it was a long time since the Fanners Home meeting, but he thought there must have been some follow up contract between Behr and Farmers Home or someone at Umbaugh, because everyone at the meeting had the opinion that we were trying for a combination grant and loan for the

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entire project. Holme* said that there were a lot of reservations about doing a project solely for a few industrial or commercial customers without taking care of potential needs of residents. He added that the Council thought that there were certain cost savings in doing this an one over-all project with just one contractor involved. Behr said that he apologizes for any misunderstanding, and said that he had researched his notes for that meeting and it was his understanding that we were trying for a grant for the north phase of the project. He added that he was surprised to learn different, and said that he will do whatever he can to correct the problem. Gene Reese asked if it wasn’t true that Umbaugh's report showed that Farmers Home would be the best source for this type of loan. Holmes replied that Farmers Home was very narrowly the best, but it was dependent on a lot of variables including interest rates that the bond bank was giving at that time, and Farmers Home rates. The length of the loan will also be a factor. He said that we couldn't get a Farmers Home loan now, and stay on the same timetable as the north project. 25 Yean 01 Profession! A Person! Servia • UPHOLSTERY • CARPETING | JPj|| * *°* TS i • VEHICLES • SEMIS (219) 586-2745 or (219) 324-4942 CM 600 a m - 12:00 pm