City of Laurie, Missouri

Meeting of March 8, 2010

The meeting of the Board of Alderman was called at 5:00PM for hearing of the codification of Ordinances being brought about by Sullivin Publishing under contract for the city of Laurie. There were several instances where our Ordinances were not in compliance with the state statutes, these have been brought into compliance and in several areas where we added to the statute in place. After discussion we were informed that with an additional $300.00 one time charge and $30.00 a month we could put all Ordinances on line for the general public use and by "key word" they could call up any document for review or printing. Since this entailed a motion, it was decided to be brought up in the regular meeting at 6:00PM.

The meeting of the Board of Alderman was called at 6:00PM with the pledge of allegence and a moment of silent prayer for our troops.

The minutes of the meeting of Feb. 8, 2010 were approved.

A motion accepting the codification of the cities Ordinances and agreeing to an additional charge to put on line with "keyword" search was unanimous.

The Ordinance 2010-02 was read concerning fireworks and the issuance of permits to both temporary and permanent sales outlets. Ordinance passed.

The policys and procedures manuel for use of in car camers for the police dept. was tabled until next month.

Co-Mo described to the Board their intention to file for a grant to put fibre-optic cable to all their customers for high speed internet. The ARRA grant timing is Oct 2010 for grant disclosure, if they are granted it will be about a three year buildout. This we endorse both for jobs to install the fibre-optics and the 100% coverage that would be obtained in the area. Our time frame for the cities internet partnership is as follows: T-1 is being installed this week on the easement we obtained, we will be installing reception antennas at customers next week with only two years needed for our  business plan to payout the city for its investment.

The Ordinance 2010-07 was read concerning the contract between Gravois arm sewer district and ourselves. After discussion it was passed.

All pending payments were approved for payment.

Mr. Ed Young, Public works Director; reported the USDA approval on the sewer rate increase and also reported on the easement for AT&T and updated us on the status of the Internet system and the plans to begin customer installations next week. Mr. Young brought improvements to the fairgrounds to the Board's attention and provided bids for concrete work to be done now as well as increasing the size of the pavilion at this time. The total of these capitol improvements are $13,996.67, the board approved this expendature with an agreement to amend the budget to reflect this additional expense. They are enlarging the pavilion, repairing the main stage, and repair asphalt by the main stage with these monies.

Mrs. Wood reported on the financials for the city. Your Mayor & Board have a budget that reflects an 8% loss in revunue for the year, the financials indicate that as of this date we are seeing about a 5% decrease.

Your Mayor reported that for three months income this year the city revenues are down 14% from the all time high for 2006-7 and 5% down from last year to this year same time period.

Meeting was adjorned at 6:55PM