MONROE - At a meeting Tuesday, the City of Monroe Finance and Taxation Committee:
- Postponed a review of the 2009 audit because of a lack of time.
- Sent to the Ad Hoc Technology Committee for review a request to purchase new water utility software and an upgrade to the city accounting software.
- Authorize putting excess Senior Center wellness fees from 2010, about $19,000, into the center's capital account.
- Recommended the council approve use of $25,000 from the TIF 7 funds to pay for Monroe Main Street annual operating expenses. The motion included recommendations to Monroe Main Street to review and revamp, if possible, the TIF project plan, and to increase its efforts to raise the funds necessary to cover the organization's portion of operating expenses, about one-third of the total operating budget.
MONROE - At a meeting Tuesday, the City of Monroe Common Council:
- Welcomed the new city administrator, Philip Rath, to Monroe.
- Received a training session on harassment by the Cities and Villages Mutual Insurance Company.
- Approved unanimously an ordinance amending the Monroe city code on permitted and conditional uses in the M-1 light industrial districts, to include manufacturing, processing and packing of food products. No one commented during the public hearing on the measure.
- Approved, unanimously, a certified survey map for land near Wisconsin 11 and Youth Cabin Road area for Delbert and Marilyn Neuenschwander.
- Approved unanimously $25,000 from TIF 7 funds to pay for Monroe Main Street annual operating expense.
- Authorized hiring John Lehan as the assistant recreation supervisor at $15.93 per hour starting Dec. 20 for the city's recreation department. The roll call vote was 7-2, with Thurston Hanson and Michael Boyce against.
- Approved payment of city bills totaling $591,400.
- Granted miscellaneous licenses.
- Approved Gregory J. Smith as a Class B liquor licensee agent for Turner Hall of Monroe, Inc.
- Approved unanimously hiring Town and County Engineering, Inc. for design services for a sanitary sewer reconstruction near 4th Avenue and Shopko parking lot.
- Authorized hiring Fehr-Graham and Associates of Monroe at a cost not to exceed $6,000 to prepare plans and specifications for 8th/9th Street detour project signage. The vote was 8-1, with Hanson against.
-Tere Dunlap
- Postponed a review of the 2009 audit because of a lack of time.
- Sent to the Ad Hoc Technology Committee for review a request to purchase new water utility software and an upgrade to the city accounting software.
- Authorize putting excess Senior Center wellness fees from 2010, about $19,000, into the center's capital account.
- Recommended the council approve use of $25,000 from the TIF 7 funds to pay for Monroe Main Street annual operating expenses. The motion included recommendations to Monroe Main Street to review and revamp, if possible, the TIF project plan, and to increase its efforts to raise the funds necessary to cover the organization's portion of operating expenses, about one-third of the total operating budget.
MONROE - At a meeting Tuesday, the City of Monroe Common Council:
- Welcomed the new city administrator, Philip Rath, to Monroe.
- Received a training session on harassment by the Cities and Villages Mutual Insurance Company.
- Approved unanimously an ordinance amending the Monroe city code on permitted and conditional uses in the M-1 light industrial districts, to include manufacturing, processing and packing of food products. No one commented during the public hearing on the measure.
- Approved, unanimously, a certified survey map for land near Wisconsin 11 and Youth Cabin Road area for Delbert and Marilyn Neuenschwander.
- Approved unanimously $25,000 from TIF 7 funds to pay for Monroe Main Street annual operating expense.
- Authorized hiring John Lehan as the assistant recreation supervisor at $15.93 per hour starting Dec. 20 for the city's recreation department. The roll call vote was 7-2, with Thurston Hanson and Michael Boyce against.
- Approved payment of city bills totaling $591,400.
- Granted miscellaneous licenses.
- Approved Gregory J. Smith as a Class B liquor licensee agent for Turner Hall of Monroe, Inc.
- Approved unanimously hiring Town and County Engineering, Inc. for design services for a sanitary sewer reconstruction near 4th Avenue and Shopko parking lot.
- Authorized hiring Fehr-Graham and Associates of Monroe at a cost not to exceed $6,000 to prepare plans and specifications for 8th/9th Street detour project signage. The vote was 8-1, with Hanson against.
-Tere Dunlap