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La Harpe Council Discusses Bids and City Improvements

The La Harpe City council met on Monday, July 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm at the La Harpe City Hall. All council members were present as well as Dan Gillett, Tim Graves, Dave Little, Wayne Humphrey, Eric Moe, Police Chief Justin Livingston, Doug Endres, and Christy Kienast.

Eric Moe told the council that he had a pre-construction meeting with the contractors for the intersection work. The work has been pushed back until the beginning of September due to the relocation of a couple of power poles.

A bid to inspect the inside of the water tower without draining it has been received by Eric Moe. Eric is going to get another bid from another company.

A motion was passed to pay half the bill for the sidewalk at Banks and Beals funeral home. As with other sidewalks, the homeowner or business owner needs to get one or if possible two bids for sidewalk replacement and give them to the council for consideration.

Wayne Humphrey has been replacing culverts around town.

In other business:

• the city park is looking real good.
• Bids have come in to for repainting the main city shop building at $6450. A motion was approved to have this done.
• A bid was received for $3000 to repaint the East city building. The council decided to wait on this for further recommendations.
• Two bids were received for tuck pointing the La Harpe City Hall brick building, however, the bidders used different approaches. Mayor Brown is going to contact someone affiliated with the National Register of Historic buildings to see about having the building looked further into regarding the structure, walls, etc. before seeking further bids using the same approaches for repair.
• One of the city's part-time officers has taken a full time position.
• The city webpage is currently being updated.
• It was heard that the auditor will be at the next meeting.

After the scheduled meeting, the council moved into executive session without stating the purpose.

The next meeting will be on Monday, July 28th at the La Harpe City Hall at 7:00 pm.