Claypool Awards Trash Contract
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
CLAYPOOL - Stafford Solid Waste Inc. will remain the trash collector for the town with no increase to the 146 households, the town council decided in its meeting Monday. Monthly costs for current customers are $4.26 per stop. Customers at New Beginnings subdivision will be charged $4.50. Monthly fees include emptying several dumpsters around town for a total cost of $782.50 per month.
Also bidding were AmeriWaste and Wabash Valley.
The AmeriWaste representative said if the town is happy with Stafford they should stay with them. AmeriWaste owns the nearby landfill and Stafford dumps trash loads there.
"We'll get the business one way or another," he said.
Trash pickup will continue on Thursdays.
Lewis Canby approached the board with a property issue. He has been buying, on land contract from Troy Miller, a 150-foot by 90-foot plot of land on the southwest corner where Railroad and Harrison streets meet. Now Canby wants to own the property outright.
According to maps, Railroad Street officially extends past Harrison Street but is undeveloped. The property lies just outside town limits.
Canby's problems is multifold.
He says he has no legal description of the plot - just the words "150-feet by 90-feet."
Miller wants a 10-foot easement for access to his property along Harrison Street. Canby has been paying for this strip for 7-1/2 years.
If Miller takes the easement, Canby's property will be landlocked, and, according to state law, a landlocked property cannot be sold.
If Railroad Street extends to the south, 3 feet of the garage encroach.
The property shown as Railroad Street could also be Conrail Railroad property.
The board agreed to vacate Railroad Street if it exists that far south.
Canby was advised to seek out the original plat at the county courthouse and secure a legal description of the street and to see who has been paying taxes on the property.
In other business, the board:
• Acknowledged receipt of a $250 check for the maintenance of Ezra Bloom's grave in Graceland Cemetery from the estate of Beulah Shade.
• Approved the 2000 salary ordinance including a 3 percent cost-of-living increase. Gene Warner said the ordinance did not include the 3 percent retirement stipend.
• Increased the per hour rate to plow snow, sand and salt the school parking lot from $75 from $55 per hour.
• Transferred Federal Emergency Management Agency monies received regarding the snow emergency last year to the salt-buying fund. The amount transferred was $754.39.
• Set a redevelopment meeting for 7 p.m. Jan. 6.
• Approved a 14-day holiday schedule for town workers.
Board members are Don Miller, Niki Lincoln and Duane Allen. Clerk-treasurer is Shelley Thomas. [[In-content Ad]]
CLAYPOOL - Stafford Solid Waste Inc. will remain the trash collector for the town with no increase to the 146 households, the town council decided in its meeting Monday. Monthly costs for current customers are $4.26 per stop. Customers at New Beginnings subdivision will be charged $4.50. Monthly fees include emptying several dumpsters around town for a total cost of $782.50 per month.
Also bidding were AmeriWaste and Wabash Valley.
The AmeriWaste representative said if the town is happy with Stafford they should stay with them. AmeriWaste owns the nearby landfill and Stafford dumps trash loads there.
"We'll get the business one way or another," he said.
Trash pickup will continue on Thursdays.
Lewis Canby approached the board with a property issue. He has been buying, on land contract from Troy Miller, a 150-foot by 90-foot plot of land on the southwest corner where Railroad and Harrison streets meet. Now Canby wants to own the property outright.
According to maps, Railroad Street officially extends past Harrison Street but is undeveloped. The property lies just outside town limits.
Canby's problems is multifold.
He says he has no legal description of the plot - just the words "150-feet by 90-feet."
Miller wants a 10-foot easement for access to his property along Harrison Street. Canby has been paying for this strip for 7-1/2 years.
If Miller takes the easement, Canby's property will be landlocked, and, according to state law, a landlocked property cannot be sold.
If Railroad Street extends to the south, 3 feet of the garage encroach.
The property shown as Railroad Street could also be Conrail Railroad property.
The board agreed to vacate Railroad Street if it exists that far south.
Canby was advised to seek out the original plat at the county courthouse and secure a legal description of the street and to see who has been paying taxes on the property.
In other business, the board:
• Acknowledged receipt of a $250 check for the maintenance of Ezra Bloom's grave in Graceland Cemetery from the estate of Beulah Shade.
• Approved the 2000 salary ordinance including a 3 percent cost-of-living increase. Gene Warner said the ordinance did not include the 3 percent retirement stipend.
• Increased the per hour rate to plow snow, sand and salt the school parking lot from $75 from $55 per hour.
• Transferred Federal Emergency Management Agency monies received regarding the snow emergency last year to the salt-buying fund. The amount transferred was $754.39.
• Set a redevelopment meeting for 7 p.m. Jan. 6.
• Approved a 14-day holiday schedule for town workers.
Board members are Don Miller, Niki Lincoln and Duane Allen. Clerk-treasurer is Shelley Thomas. [[In-content Ad]]