Warsaw Board of Works members Jeff Grouse and George Clemens approved the purchase of a road paving machine for $109,583 as requested by Assistant Street Superintendent Denny Long Friday.
The item was tabled at a prior meeting. Funding for this purchase from MacAllister is available in the street department’s budget.
Human Resources Director Jennifer Whittaker asked for a new used vehicle for the mayor, which was approved. The old car will be used by another department. Funds for the vehicle will come from the general fund and wastewater treatment plant accounts.
Senior City Planner Justin Taylor presented a pay application for the Airport Industrial Park sewer project for $3,150 for construction, which was approved.
Two pay applications were approved for the wastewater treatment plant expansion project: one for $42,851 and another for $1,890, as presented by Utilities Superintendent Brian Davison.
Sheila Wieringa, Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department recreation director, requested permission to apply for an Indiana Arts Commission grant for $5,000, which was approved. This is a matching grant for the Central Park concert series and the matching funds have been budgeted.
Wieringa said the department applies for this grant every year and the amount received will depend on how many other worthy applicants there are. Warsaw usually receives $4,000 to $4,500.
The board also approved the following parks department contracts as presented by Wieringa:
• With dance instructor Michelle Wysong to teach rumba and salsa in one session and East Coast swing and foxtrot in another at the Pete Thorn Center, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Mondays from March 9 to May 18. Cost is $50 per couple, which the parks will collect and forward to Wysong.
• With blues group Lightnin’ Rod and the Thunderbolts during the summer concert series in Lucerne Park’s ampitheater on July 17 for $1,000.
• With Zach Day as Magnolia Soul during the Central Park concert series on May 22 for $3,000.
• With Matt Gabriel, blues, folk and country musician, for the Central Park concert series on June 5 at $750.
• With Quinten Flagg for the Central Park concert series on Aug. 14 for $800.
• With The BelAirs for the Central Park concert series on Aug. 7 for $750.
• With brass band Whistle Pigs for the Central Park concert series on May 29 for $800.
Patrol officer’s Clayton Rieder’s pay was increased to $2,139.25 and Lucas VanderHart’s to $2,060.01. Street department mechanic Christopher Hoffer’s pay was set at $20.75 per hour as a new hire.
Claims of $265,845.80 were approved.
Mayor Joe Thallemer was absent from Friday’s meeting.
The next board of works meeting is March 6 at 10:30 a.m. in council chambers at city hall.
