BURKET – A concern about a property owner burning a shed was brought up during the Burket Town Council meeting Thursday.
Councilwoman Lena Ball said a resident knocked down their shed and started burning it. Council President Bill Rayburn said the fire department went down and told the property owner they couldn’t burn the shed and the fire had to be put out.
The pile of debris is still in the resident’s yard. Ball didn’t know how long the county gives properties to clean that sort of thing up, she said.
From Rayburn’s understanding, the health department posts something and gives the property owners 30 days to clean the property up. He doesn’t know if anything was posted on the property. Officially, he said the pile of debris can be staged to be picked up and he hopes the property owner does that.
Earlier in the meeting, Rayburn updated the council on work Street Superintendent Brad Bibler is doing as Bibler was absent from Thursday’s meeting.
Bibler still has yet to move a speed sign on Center Street after complaints the sign wasn’t visible. Rayburn said Bibler believes other speed signs are needed on some of the streets in town, so those will be ordered.
Rayburn also said work on the railroad crossing on Walnut Street still hasn’t been completed. He said some more calls may be needed to be made. He also said unless work starts soon, the work may not be done this year.
In other business, the council:
• Heard the 2025 budget hearing is at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22 with the adoption of the budget at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 31.
• Heard trick-or-treat hours are 5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31
• Approved a $500 cost-of-living increase for town board members and employees for 2025, contingent on getting the 2025 proposed budget adjusted.
That would mean Board members Ball and Debra Deniston would be paid $1,900 a year, Rayburn would be paid $2,100 a year, Clerk-Treasurer Katina Webb would be paid $6,500 a year and Bibler would be paid $4,500.