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Darryl Worley is set to perform during the city's country concert July 25, Janelle Wilson parks department activity director reminded the Warsaw Board of Works Friday. Worley is a Country Music CMA Horizon Award nominee. He also is nominated for the Academy of Country Music's Top New Male Vocalist of the Year Award.
Worley will perform in Central Park at 7:30 p.m. after an opening performance at 6:30 p.m. by bluegrass band Rural Route. The Friday night concert series is offered free to the public.
Contracts for the Aug. 8 Family Carnival were also approved: $225 for the services of caricature artist Bill Frauhiger; $550 for entertainment by Mike Thompson; and $200 for entertainment by Pam Dickson. The Blue River Big Band was contracted for $850 for an Aug. 1 concert.
GBC Media radio advertisements and a live remote broadcast on WRSW 107.3 FM in the amount of $1,000 also were approved.
Board members Mayor Ernie Wiggins, Jerry Patterson and Charlie Smith reviewed quotes for a utility truck with hoist to be operated at the new wastewater treatment plant. A quote by Fort Wayne Fleet, Fort Wayne for $67,366.50, although $400 higher than a $66,999 quote from QT Equipment, Akron, Ohio, was accepted. The Fort Wayne Fleet vehicle has 20 miles on the odometer compared to the QT vehicle, with 2,100. Service runs to Fort Wayne also are closer than Akron.
Other quotes were presented by WA Jones, Columbia City, and $70,196; and by NESCO, Bluffton, for $71,250.
Wiggins said funds for the vehicle and other equipment at the second WWT facility have been factored in bond payments. Other new equipment requests will be seen in future meetings.
Larita Mason attended the meeting asking about setting up a hot dog stand downtown. She was advised the board required a catering kitchen to work out of, an exact location to be named and a set a time period for the stand operation.
Mason said she was asking for someone else who didn't have a location in mind yet, but wanted to sell hot dogs all summer.
In other business the board:
• Approved change Order No. 1 for the McKinley Street extension project as requested by KelCon Inc. The order extends completion of the project to Aug. 15. A delay in material receipt for a retaining wall was noted. The work must be finished by Aug. 30.
• Heard from Warsaw police department Capt. Paul Schmitt two Indiana Criminal Justice Institute Grants have been awarded: one, for the STOP Violence Against Women in the amount of $10,723; and the other, for the Victims Of Crime Act Victims Assistance in the amount of $29,631. A local match of $3,575 must be made for the STOP grant and $7,408 for the Victims Assistance grant.
• Approval to attend Spanish language classes at Ivy Tech State College was given for planning department employees Gisele Cox and Kimberly Walters. The request indicates there is an increasing need for the planning department personnel to communicate with the city's growing Hispanic population.
• Costs are $339 per student, plus textbooks.
• Approved a request by Oakwood Cemetery Sexton to hire Ideal Construction Co. for a new roof and guttering on the administration building and a new roof on the garage at a cost of $6,550. The work has been budgeted for 2003.
• Heard Wiggins will be in Washington DC next week with a contingent of Indiana Cities and Towns Association members lobbying for funding to go to the state to improve downtowns.
• Approved travel requests by Teresa Ho, Jeff Noffsinger, Larry Engle, Steve Adang, Dave Morales and Terry Poulston.
• Heard CSX Railroad will begin work on the tracks between Indiana and High streets Monday, closing those streets for about two weeks.
• Set the August BOW meetings for Aug. 8 and 22 at 10:30 a.m. in city hall. Ordinarily the meetings would be Aug. 1 and 15.
