The Centerville City Council’s plate is piled high with agenda items for tonight's regular 5:30 p.m. meeting at City Hall.
Topping the list, after the consent agenda, is a public hearing regarding amending the Hazardous Vegetation chapter of the city code by adding offensive or nuisance wildlife and rodent harborage to the title. Following the public hearing the ordinance will be read for the first time.
The ordinance adds a section to the code that prohibits in, under or outside any structure or property conditions conducive to the multiplication of or continued existence of offensive or nuisance wildlife and rodents and includes but is not limited to feral cats, wild dogs, skunks, raccoons, opossums, rats and mice. The ordinance adds a section to allow for fines for non-compliance.
"It shall be unlawful for any person to place, leave, dump, or permit to accumulate any garbage, rubbish, or trash in any structure or on any property so that the same may afford harborage for any of the above listed offensive or nuisance (creatures) wildlife and rodents," the ordinance states.
If material or articles constitute a harborage, they must "be placed upon racks elevated not less than 18 inches above the ground and evenly piled or stacked." The ordinance does exempt "neatly stacked firewood or properly maintained compost piles and bins."
Next in line is general business, with no less than 15 action items.
• A 28E agreement between the city and Appanoose County Coalition for the Arts. The agreement has the city acting as the middleman between ACCA and state grant agencies. ACCA has received a $143,000 Iowa Great Places grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs for the construction of the Ritz Theatre. ACCA pays the bills, submits them to the city, which in turn files for re-imbusrement from Iowa Great Places or other granting entities. Once the city receives the funds, they are paid back to ACCA.
• Five action items pertain to the Centerville Municipal Airport. Two — engineering agreement with French Reneker Associates and a grant application — deal with the environmental assessment related to the purchase of approximately 49 acres of land to meet Federal Aviation Administration standards for building restriction line and runway protection zones.
The other three deal with the job description for Kathy Bratz, airport manager, Airport Commission duties and responsibilities and the airport agreement.
SEVERAL DISCUSSION ITEMS:
• Nuisance property at 223 and 227 E. Van Buren St., 412 N. 12th St. and adjoining properties and the 200 block of East Washington Street
• George Johnson, code compliance officer, and the Majestic Theater and other nuisances
• Pony Express
• Dumpsters for disposal of cardboard
• Snow removal and use of street sweeper
• Joyce King and dogs running loose
• Wendell DeVore and parking on North 13th from Orchard Street to Madison Street
• Apply for a United States Department of Agriculture loan for road, wastewater and library
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Tonight the council is expected to address a concerned citizen’s request to discuss “nuisance property” located at 223 and 227 E. Van Buren St., 412 N. 12th St. and adjoining properties and in the 200 block of East Washington Street. And George Johnson, code compliance officer, is expected to discuss the Majestic Theater and other nuisances in the city.
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