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CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Spencer Knight called to order the regular meeting of the Rutledge City Council on the above date. Council members Tom Strott, Brenda Thompson and James Bratcher were present. Bill Spann was absent. Members of the public were also present.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Molly Lesnikowski addressed the council and thanked everyone for the clean up of the town for the fair. She said that the fair would now always be held on the third Saturday of May from now on. Molly announced that the recreation department had some new energy with the new people in town. She stated they would be doing the art camp again and submitted a budget to the council along with a request that recreation go back to receiving the $4000.00 they used to get from the city instead of the $2000.00. She said again we would like to thank everyone for their help and Ed would submit a detailed budget for recreation at a later time.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Brenda Thompson made motion that the minutes of the April 20, 2009 meeting be approved as submitted. James Bratcher seconded all voted in favor and motion carried.
FINANCIAL UPDATE
Debbie Rutherford gave an update on utility billing and checking account balances.
BALL FIELD – CITY PARK CONSTRUCTION
Mayor Knight advised the council that the engineers will lay out the tennis courts and the skate park. He said that the ball field will stay the same. He said I will call you all and we can go and look at it.
OLD JAIL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Mayor Knight advised the council that Tom would pop out the old windows and fix them. Tom stated that some needed to be scraped and he would take them to his shop to fix them and would bring them back. Spencer stated we will have someone replace what is damaged and save what we can and after they are fixed we will paint.
BUDGET WORK SESSIONS AND HEARINGS
Debbie advised the council that she hopes to have the budget completed and the last public hearing by their regular meeting in July. She stated that she would be calling them with the dates of the work sessions and public hearings.
GARBAGE SERVICE CONTRACT
Mayor Knight stated that we had three prices for the garbage pickup and Sinclair was the lowest. He said that the quote for recycling would be at a cost of $6.85 per household and there are no exceptions everyone would have to be on it. The council agreed that all
the citizens would not want to pay the extra fee. Tom Strott made motion to renew the contract with Sinclair Disposal for garbage pickup only. Brenda Thompson seconded, all voted in favor and motion carried.
Andy Ainsley addressed the council and gave updates on the new park on Fears road. He said the park is doing well. He also said the new pool in Madison is scheduled to open on June 3rd. He also thanked everyone for attending the town hall meeting. He said the hospital funding sources should be decided on by August 1st.
Frederick Clark addressed the council and thanked them for all their hard work and told them that they are appreciated.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
James Bratcher made motion to exit regular session for the purpose of entering executive session to discuss personnel. Tom Strott seconded all voted in favor and motion carried.
Brenda Thompson made motion to exit executive session for the purpose of entering regular session. Tom Strott seconded, all voted in favor and motion carried.
There was one personnel matter discussed, no action taken.
MEETING ADJOURNED.
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