Minutes-01/06/1965 (2)

Minutes of Regular Council Meeting, January 6, 1965 Present: Bill Verry, Glenn Potter, Ted Spivey, Wayne Stratton Absent: Bill Eream Old Business: Water. Subsequent to last meeting, the continued pumping and the water level continued to drop. Apparently this will not provide enough water for a town pump. It could be used with another well pumped into the system at another point because it is good quality water. Discussed this briefly with the geologist who is out of town at present. He indicated he had another plan. He thought that we might have more success down in the creek bed. Apparently this well proved that there is an underground barrier to water flow in this area here. This kind of supported some of the things they felt might be the case underground, and he felt that possibly down in the creek flood plain might be more successful, but it was just a brief conversation and haven't talked to him since. I specifically asked him if we should give up the idea of this shallow aquifer. Sewer. Glenn Construction had a load of rock brought in a few days previous to the meeting. Plant is coming along, and they are shooting for March 1. Vern Davitt said he was pretty sure we can charge sewer rental as soon as the plant is completed. Direct people to hook up and you can begin charging rentals. Ordinance #56, AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR MINIMUM HOUSING REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATIONS FOR THE TOWN OF TIFFIN, IOWA. Bill Verry made the motion to pass this ordinance, effective today; Glenn Potter seconded the motion. Councilmen Verry, Potter, Spivey and Stratton voted "Ayé". No "Nays". Councilman Glenn Potter then moved that the rule of law requiring three readings on this ordinance on three different dates be dispensed with. On roll call, Councilmen William Verry, Theodore Spivey, Glenn Potter, and Wayne Stratton voted "Ayé". No "Nays". There should be a fence around the plant pond, it was felt. Week before last, the mayor got a couple calls from Bill Mass, and he had two fellows with him at lunch. One was Dinsmore's partner in the real estate business and the fellow who bought Purl Sentman's property. They were primarily interested in feeling us out on what we would think about the type of development down there. Obviously, we have influence within a mile radius on zoning. They wanted to know whether we had a zoning ordinance. He said it looked pretty much like it's a logical industrial property (east of town) and that is what they had hoped to do. At this time, they didn't have anything in particular in mind, but hope to develop it as an industrial property. Interested in getting sewer service, etc. I told him that at the present time there is nobody in between that is doing any developing. I said we would love to have another customer, but you are somewhere between 1500 and 2000 feet from the plant there @ $3.25 a foot, it would cost some money to get to the plant. Intermediate properties? Depends on the council and what we can expect. We can't annex everybody without consideration of the use and the financial condition of the property owners in there. But I said if you would request annexation and we could get 2/3 of the property owners in this area to request annexation, we would not have any trouble. I don't think in annexing that land. If Leona would request that her acre between the town and Jude Hogeland would request annexation it would be a simple matter to annex it. It would be a lot better for the town as far as control and regulations if we could get this in the town. The property owners will have a better time with us than with the county.