Minutes-7 /22/1990

Scheetz: I can give you some pallets. Bartels: Are we talking 20 hours per week for the summer? Potter: He'll need to mow, remove sand bags, dig ditches out. Bartels: There's not much choice then. Morgan: It appears that he needs help. Potter: Should we set a time limit? Morgan: That would be hard to determine. Brown: He'll have to work until the job is done. Stoner: We'll review the situation at the next meeting. Morgan: We have capable people. Stoner: Bob Herring Jr. is a good worker. Morgan: He should have the first chance to work. Potter: Should Dave help with the bags? Stoner: Whatever it takes. We'll look at it at the next meeting. Motion Bartels second Stoner to hire part-time help at $5.00 per hour to assist Bob Herring with cleanup after the flood with a review at the next meeting. Carried unanimously. Potter: Maybe I shouldn't bring this up, but there's been publicity that residents of the trailer court has hired an attorney. I don't know what they have in mind. At the end of Summerhays Street there is a ditch under the railroad tracks. The culvert takes the water to the trailer court property. There's no way the water can miss the court. There were threats of sandbagging the culvert. The water went over the tracks. The culvert has been there long before the court. Stoner called the railroad. Tiffin does not control the culvert, other than we try to keep it cleaned out. The railroad owns it and controls it. Stoner: The railroad doesn't want more damage. They will cooperate. Potter: It's full of debris right now. There should be grates on both sides. Scheetz could put a grate on the trailer court side. Another hole goes into the pond. The pond has a drain for overflow if everything is working right. They are partly blaming the city. Can't change the natural flow of water. Shive-Hattery looked at the situation with the culvert under that tracks. They said you'd almost have to run uphill to get the water to the creek. Can't cut in too far on the east of the tracks because the water would back up. We'll have to keep it as it is, but grate it. Scheetz: You could correct it. Hart and I met with the railroad. You could put in a dike and take the water to the big tubes. Measured one foot higher on railroad side. Shoot it to the east.