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Melody Barker of Barker Archives attended the Warsaw Board of Works meeting Friday to discuss a proposal to scan and store official city documents.
Melody owns the company with her husband, DeWayne Barker.
Costs to scan 15 "minute" books with removable pages would cost 15-cents per scanned image page or $22 per book.
Each meeting date would be indexed.
Older, bound archival books, in very fragile condition, would be photographed at a cost of 96 cents each page. Or the pages could be removed and scanned at the 15 cent per page cost. The older books' images would be transferred to CDs. The city would have to pay to rebind the books.
Member Charlie Smith asked that total costs be given for each alternative and the item was tabled.
The board approved a $22,500 contract with the William Morris Agency Inc. for an appearance by Terri Clark for the July 23 country concert. Clark's show begins at 7:30 p.m. and will last 75 minutes. Also approved was a $1,500 contract with Kevin Roberts Entertainment for the country concert agent fees.
Activity director Janelle Wilson said an additional $5,000 donation from the Biomet Foundation helped bring Clark to the Friday night concert in the Central Park series. The performances are free and open to the public.
The board approved a grant agreement with the Kosciusko 21st Century Foundation in the amount of $50,000 for phase two of the beyer Farm Trail of the Lake City Greenway project.
Clerk Elaine Call noted there was no budget attached as described in the agreement.
The grant requires matching funds, an topic city planner Jeff Noffsinger said he planned to discuss at the city council meeting.
The grant's expiration date is March 2005.
The board also:
• Approved a contract with the Indiana Department of Transportation regarding the rehabilitation of the Chinworth Bridge over the Tippecanoe River and the Groninger Bridge over the Maish Ditch on the western end of the Lake City Greenway.
The city has already met its share of the matching funds, $64,000 in credits, of the $320,000 project. Bid letting is April 20.
• Approved payment number 12, $109,367.90, to Woodruff and Sons for interceptor work.
• Accepted a subdivision Performance Bond of $150,000 from Ray and Dianne Plummer for construction of roads, curbs, sanitary sewers and storm sewers in the McElroy Hill Business Park.
• Reviewed and accepted a letter of credit from First Federal Savings Bank for Anchorage Bay LLC in the amount of $50,000 for construction and excavating in the Anchorage Bay subdivision.
• Released liens at 501, 516, 526 E. Center St. for compliance with code ordinances and at 412 W. Pike St. for payment of a $1,000 fee, all properties owned by Thomas Buskirk; at 209 S. Scott St., a property owned by Patricia Rogers now in compliance and at 1121 E. Main St., a property owned by Elizabeth Smith, for a paid fee of $450.
• Noted that payments to Allied Waste Industries should now be sent to Allied Receivable Funding Inc.
• Approved a two-page, color, advertisement in the Warsaw Kosciusko County Chamber of Commerce guide book. The book is published every four years. Cost for the center spread is $4,636.
