Members Present: Brian Melchi, Pat Berger, Charles Illingworth, Susie Sigo 

Others Present: Mark Jones, Bruce Messersmith, Brad Idlewine, John Flinn, Ryan Byrd, Charles Clark, Bill Horn, Dan Anaya, Kay Brown, John Casey, Barb Lawson, Jon Borgers, John Schuetzenhofer, Wendy Schwab, Steve Kinsell. 

Brian Melchi opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. 

Minutes from the May 4, 2009 meeting were approved on a motion by Pat Berger seconded by Charlie Illingworth. Motion carried. 

Chuck Clark, with MBAH and Bill Horn with Indiana Insurance Programs were present to give a presentation to the council pertaining to the town's insurance and what is needed. Material was given to the council to review before the next council meeting in July. The town's insurance is up for renewal on July 7^th.  

Jon Borgers presented agreements with Town & Country Construction for the Advance Auto Road Project. All documents have been received. Borgers mentioned that the light pole does need to be moved as Town and Country wants to start construction around June 22^nd.    

Kay Brown asked Borgers about invoicing for the project as to whether the town is to pay for everything and then be reimbursed from INDOT. Borgers said he would check into this. Brown stated that the town would not be able to pay for this project up front and that hopefully it would be where she would send invoices directly to INDOT for payment to the vendor. 

Borgers reported that R & R Visual has finished televising the sanitary sewer lines. 

Charlie Illingworth asked how the mapping project was going. Borgers stated they are still working on these but are just about finished. 

Town Attorney 

John Casey presented the council with information that is needed for mowing properties that have not been taken care of. Casey reviewed the town's current week ordinance and stated it needed to be updated. He will work on this for the next meeting. He stated that if John Flinn mows any yards he needs to be sending the property owner a 5-day notice before doing so. 

Department Reports

 Wastewater- -Bruce Messersmith reported that the water champ pumps are hard to get. Quality Repair has them for $1280 apiece. The labor cost for installing the pumps would be $880 but may go up. Messersmith would rotate the pumps from year to year.   Messersmith presented quotes on the sewer-televising camera. Insight Vision: $11296, E. J. Prescott: $9650, Utility Supply: $10410. Messersmith asked about upgrading the town cell phones. Because of the WWTP location, the signal continually bounces and drains the phone batteries. Kay Brown will check into this for the next meeting. 

Water- -Mark Jones reported the wells are all in good shape.  He had a motor burn up on well #4 (an electrical part). Peerless set a new pump but it would not run. There evidently was a bad lug on the disconnect which has been replaced and the motor is now working. The New York Street tap was done today. Pipe laying will start tomorrow. This will tie into Maine Street on Michigan. Jones will need to get two good bacterial samples before the line can be used.   Smith Transport is now entirely hooked to water. The Consumer Confidence Reports have been printed and will be sent out with the next utility billing. 

Street Department- -John Flinn reported that he has a person working for him that needed community service hours, in case the council wondered what the person was doing.  Flinn will start spraying for mosquitoes this week.  He has counted 35 empty homes in town.. 10 of these are for sale. He has mowed nine of them so far. He asked what to do about the Sheldon/Sayler subdivision. It needs mowed pretty badly. Brian Melchi stated he would speak to one of the two men about this.  Flinn checked with the railroad about painting the old depot. He has not heard back from them. Charlie Illingworth asked Flinn to ask them if they would pay for the paint.  Flinn reported he is working on the street repair list and will have that at the next council meeting. Susie Sigo asked Flinn if he could include having it blacktopped in front of the pole shed. Flinn stated he would but he would have to tear out the cement that is there first. 

Police Department Report   

John Schuetzenhofer stated that the Marshal did not have a police report for him to give to the council.  Schuetzenhofer asked what was going to be done about the dilapidated house on North Illinois Street. It is becoming a safety hazard. He asked the council if he should put caution tape around it. Town Attorney, John Casey, stated that yes he should but it will more than likely get torn down.  The council asked Casey to begin proceedings to file suit against the property owner in order to get this matter taken care of.  Brian Melchi asked Schuetzenhofer to keep track of the IMI trucks going down Maine Street. Melchi has had complaints that the trucks are going too fast.

 John Flinn stated that he had received a request to put a 4-way stop sign at Harrison and Indiana Streets. The council did not want to start doing this yet. 

An apology was accepted by the council from a young person that had vandalized town property. The person is repairing all of the damaged property.

 Fire Department Report 

Brad Idlewine gave the fire department report for the month of May. A copy of this report is on file in the Clerk-Treasurer's office. Idlewine reported that the annual truck maintenance on the town trucks has been finished.  Idlewine reported that he had talked with MacAllister in regards to the invoice they say the fire department owes. He stated that now MacAllister is saying they will remove all the parts from the invoice but has to charge labor. We have not received any billing ever for labor. John Casey stated that anyone calling from MacAllister should be referred to him. 

Old Business

 Pat Berger reported on the Fire Station Grant stating that there are 6 other towns going in for the same grant as the town. A second public hearing needs to be set for this grant. This will be on Monday, July 6^th at 6:15 p.m. prior to the regular meeting. KIRPC will advertise for this meeting. 

Discussion was held on the Housing Rehabilitation Grant. This could be for up to $250,000. The town will need to do a 10% match. Anyone interested in this could get up to $15,000 for repairs to their home if they qualify for the grant.   There would be a home inspector expense also that the town would have to pay for. This must be a licensed home inspector. Three quotes for services must be gotten. The application is due by September 11^th and notification of award will be in late October, early November. We need to advertise for this also. Do we want to move forward with this? More discussion was held. Susie Sigo made the motion to proceed with applying for this grant. Charlie Illingworth seconded the motion. Motion carried. 

Clerk-Treasurer 

Brown presented leak requests from Jim Ziolkowski, Ilene Wilkerson, and Skip Wilcox. All requests were approved on a motion by Susie Sigo, seconded by Charlie Illingworth. Motion carried. 

Brown presented American Fibertech's Compliance of Statement of Benefits for the council approval. Susie Sigo moved to accept, seconded by Charlie Illingworth. Motion carried. 

Brown asked if the Council would like to move forward with the IACT Medical Trust program. The council stated that yes they would. Brown will contact IACT about this. 

Brown asked the council if it would include the vision coverage in the employee's benefit package, stating that the vision premium was just a little over one dollar for each of the employees. The council has no problem with this. 

Claims were reviewed and approved for payment on a motion by Susie Sigo, seconded by Pat Berger. Motion carried.There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned.