Monday, August 03, 2009

City reveals plans for new parking restrictions

Monday, August 03, 2009 - Posted 7:37:51 PM by Editor

At the Minonk City Council meeting Monday night Alderman Fortner revealed the proposed amendment to parking restrictions within the City.  Fortner said that the proposed amendment includes the following one lane parking restrictions:

- Parking only on the East side of Maple Avenue between 4th and 6th Streets to alleviate congestion in front of the Fieldcrest High School.

- Parking only on the north side of 5th Street between Maple and Locust.

- Parking only on the east side of Johnson Street between 5th and 6th Streets to alleviate congestion at the Fieldcrest South Elementary School.

- Parking only on the south side of 6th Street between Johnson and Lincoln Streets between 7:00 am to 4:00 pm.

- Parking only on the north side of 5th Street between Johnson and Lincoln Streets between 7:00 am to 4:00 pm.

This is the first reading of the amendment to Ordinance 2009-08 and will be voted on at a later date.

TIF Funds Approved

The Minonk CIty Council approved $4496 in TIF funds for the new owners of Pop's Sweet Shop at Sixth and Chestnut.  The money will be used to help finance interest payments on the building.  The funds will pay 30% of the interest for 3 years.

City Clerk Comments

City Clerk James Liner made a public statement to Alderman Ruestman.  Liner said he has learned that he is being blamed for reporting water service installation violations to the State of Illinois Plumbing Inspector on a vacant lot owned by Alderman Ruestman's brother.  Liner said he was not involved with and had no knowledge of any reporting of water service installation violations.

City Administrator Comments

City administrator Doug Elder said that he wants to get the sidewalk projects as priority 1.  He said that he wants to use the summer workers for the City before leave for the start of school in a few weeks. 

Sidebottom and Sons  won the bid to do the air conditioning in the City Hall building.

A new pump will be installed to replace a defective pump at the waste water treatment plant.  Plans are to have the new pump installed by August 14th.  In addition, repairs will be made to another pump.

The new Christmas lights have arrived.  It has been decided to attach the lights to the buildings with a silicone sealant in order to avoid drilling holes.

There is a an opening for a general worker in the Public Works Department.  Requirements for the job is being prepared by Supervisor Charlie McGuire and the City Administrator.  It is hoped to have someone hired by early fall.
                        Viewer comments on this article

emo wrote on 8/5/2009 at 08:54:11

What is the city clerk making comments like this during a city meeting????  This sound like a gripe between him and the ruestmans and should have been taking offline and not waste the councils time.
Free2bme wrote on 8/4/2009 at 08:11:14

Changes to parking near the school has been tried several times and ended up dropped by the second week of school. With the proposed changes to parking around South, does that mean that the faculty will not be parking in the spots in front of the school? The spots in front of the school should be designated as one or two hour parking. They may as well close Johnson as there are very few parking spots left once the faculity has parked. Parents should not have to park 2+ blocks away to pick their children up from school. Another thing that should be done is to change Bright Beginnings end times to ensure that the parents parking on the north side of the building are gone before the rest of the school dismisses. It used to dismiss 20 minutes early, which really worked out.

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