City Council Meeting Agenda January 24th

By Yorke Prough · Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 at 3:48 pm CDT

The Mount Pleasant City Council will meet in Regular Session on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, at City Hall, 307 E. Monroe Street, second-floor meeting room at 5:30 p.m.

AGENDA

  1. Roll Call.
  2. Consent Agenda: To the Public — All items with an asterisk (*) are routine by the City Council and will be enacted by one motion and a roll call of the Councilmembers. There will be no separate discussion of items unless the Mayor, a Councilmember or citizen so request, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and will be considered in its normal sequence on the Agenda.
  3. Receive & file communications.
  4. Approve agenda.

*5. Approve minutes of previous meetings.

*6. Approve payment of bills.

*7. Receive report of Officers.

  1. Old Business-
    1. 3rd reading/adopt Ordinance amending Chapter 21 “Solid Waste” and Chapter 25 “Solid Waste Charges” of the City of Mount Pleasant Code of Ordinance.
    2. Resolution approving Amended Curbside Residential Solid Waste Collection

Agreement between the City of Mount Pleasant and Wemiga Waste, Inc. and Lance Refuse Inc.

  1. Request from Midwest Old Threshers Board of Directors to close off McMillan Park and Old Threshers grounds to all vehicle traffic Friday, August 23 rd.
  2. Request from Midwest Old Threshers Board of Directors for the use of McMillan Park from August 7 through September 13, 2024.
  3. Request from Midwest Old Threshers to sell alcohol in McMillan Park during Midwest Old Threshers Reunion August 29- September 2, 2024.
  4. Outdoor Amplified Sound Permit for Midwest Old Threshers at McMillan Park and Old Threshers grounds from August 8-September 2, 2024.

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  1. Request from Midwest Central Railroad and Midwest Old Threshers to close Locust Street gate on each night of Midwest Haunted Rails and Threshers House of Terror October 2024.
  2. h) Outdoor Amplified Sound Permit for Midwest Central Railroad and Midwest Old

Threshers on each night of Midwest Haunted Rails and Threshers House of Terror in October, 2024.

  1. New Business-
    1. Authorize the Mayor to sign an Engineering Services Agreement with Warner Engineering for Eugene Way — Drainage & Paving- 2024 RISE-funded paving west from S. Roosevelt Street.
    2. Resolution authorizing the filing of an application for the State of Iowa Revitalize Iowa’s Sound Economy (RISE) funds for a new roadway providing access to future industrial development.
    3. Resolution authorizing Warner Engineering Services to file an application for TAP

(Transportation Alternatives Program) Funding for the Construction of PCC TRAIL on N. Grand Avenue.

  1. Resolution authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to submit a grant application to the

Iowa Department of Economic Development’s Nuisance/Abandoned Property

Remediation Fund to demolish the former Iowa Wesleyan University Gymnasium.

  1. Authorize Mayor to sign Mount Pleasant Area Development Commission (ADC)
  2. 1 st reading of Ordinance amending Chapter 69 (parking regulations) of the City Code of Ordinances.
  3. Approve Mayor appointments to the Historic Preservation Committee.
  4. Resolution approving 2023 tax abatement applications and authorizing the filing with the Henry County Assessor.
  5. Accept Resignation from Fire Chief with the Mount Pleasant Fire Department.
  1. Public Forum.

I l . Adjourn to meet in regular session on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, at 5:30 p.m.