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A shaved ice business will be allowed to operate in Warsaw. The business, Sno Balls Shaved Ice, opened Friday and will serve shaved ice at the corner of Indiana and Fort Wayne streets. The business will operate Tuesdays through Saturdays from noon to 8 p.m. until mid September. Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety, during its meeting Friday, approved an itinerant merchant fee for the business. Alisha Clayson, Sno Balls Shaved Ice owner, attended Friday’s board of works meeting to request a modification of her permit fee. She previously attended the board’s June 15 meeting and Monday’s Warsaw City Council meeting to request the itinerant merchant fee be lowered. She lives one mile from the city limits. Non-residents are required to pay $25 per day per employee as an itinerant vendor fee. Clayson asked the board to lower the fee. Warsaw City Council previously reviewed its itinerant merchant fee ordinance at Monday’s meeting and tabled it for further review. The board of works Friday approved an itinerant merchant fee for Clayson to pay $5 per day per person or $300 for a one-year fee. Board member Charlie Smith made the motion, seconded by board member Jeff Grose. Thallemer suggested the city modify its current permit fee for Clayson. Thallemer said the city council still needs to approve an ordinance and make its final recommendation and enact the new itinerant merchant fees for the city. “This is a showing of good will that you have a seasonal business,” Thallemer said. He said if the city council decides to increase the itinerant merchant fee at the time that it is approved, the amount is what Clayson will end up being required to pay. In other business, the board approved waiving wastewater billing for a home at 436 S. Columbia St. that houses three apartments and another home at 726 E. Fort Wayne St. that houses another three apartments. Janet Shull, who owns the properties with her husband Robert, attended the board meeting. She said she was informed previously by the city that she would be billed for wastewater as a single home. Smith and Grose both agreed that if the city was at fault then the Shulls should not be penalized. The board Friday approved waiving the wastewater fees for the past six years. However, Shull will be required to pay $97.80 in wastewater fees per month for July and in the future for the two homes instead of as a single home.
