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Warsaw's Board of Works approved hiring four new city employees Monday.
Gary Craft was hired as the new police bicycle patrol officer for the parks. He will be needed through September. Jon Garber was asked if bike patrols are effective for the parks and he responded, "It helps."
Matt Anderson was hired for the skating park. Mike Foster was hired as the new police dispatcher and Cary Sloan was hired for a temporary position with the airport. Sloan has worked for the airport before.
In other business:
• A change order for the Walnut Creek interceptor was approved. An additional extension of an 8-inch sanitary sewer along Meadow and Duncan drives and an installation of asphalt overlay on Brookview, Meadow Lane, Hilltop, Windsor Way and Duncan Drive were the major changes.
The original contract price was $762,689.90. The total net increase is $148,741.40.
• The board approved Fire Department Chief Matt Warren's request that a radio headset for Larry Baker be allowed to come out of Baker's clothing allowance.
Warren said it would give the rest of the officers a chance to purchase headset too. The cost of the headset is $55.
Mayor Ernie Wiggins reminded Warren the fire department has a lot of other non-clothing items that come out of the clothing allowances. Warren plans to redo the clothing allowance list at the end of the year.
• Parks department activities director Andy McCleary requested two contracts to be signed for Mirror Image's performance Aug. 4 and for Gold Room Sept. 4.
McCleary said contracts have not been coming in on time this summer. He said Mirror Image put on an excellent show and there was a good turnout.
McCleary also said he will be enforcing a new policy with performers that all contracts must be in on time.
Both contracts were approved.
• Bambi's Roofing is putting in a new roof on north side of the Pete Thorn Youth Center. Their proposal of $13,760 for the project was approved by the board.
• The indemnification agreement between Warsaw Community Schools and Don Brown was discussed.
Brown is experiencing silt in his pond from the construction of the high school in 1987. The schools agreed to pay for the materials and the city provided the labor to dig a ditch on the east side of Ind. 15 and a 15-inch storm sewer to improve drainage.
The school agreed to pay $21,882.30 to the city to apply toward the cost of the storm sewer.
This was approved.
• An agreement between the city of Warsaw and Rosemary Horton for an easement grant was approved.
The street department ran a sewer line through Horton's property without knowing the property was hers. The city needed an easement agreement with Horton to maintain the line. Horton agreed to the easement agreement.
• The board approved a travel request by Wiggins. Wiggins, clerk-treasurer Elaine Call and one of Call's deputy clerks are going to an annual conference in Evansville for the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns.
The board also approved a travel request for Mike Wilson of the fire department to attend a Public Agency Training Council seminar.
Members of the Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety are Jerry Patterson, Charles Smith and Warsaw Mayor Ernie Wiggins.
