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Council Discusses Land Purchases At Regular Monthly Meeting

The O'Neill City Council met in regular session on Monday evening. All members of the city council were present and absent was Mayor Bill Price.

The first order of business was to approve the May minutes.

Lori Olson representative of Dana F. Cole gave the city their audit report. Mrs. Olson reported that the state of affairs were good for the city with them retaining more cash on hand than at this time last year. She said this was mainly due to some un finished projects that the city had not completed.

The council then advanced to the public hearing on the real estate purchase of the land next to the gray shed at the baseball fields to be used for parking. "The land is already in use," said Jeff Schemiciel of the parks department. "People just need to get use to the idea of parking there. The cost to the city is $4,000 per year purchase price for the land.

The next item was the discussion of the acquisition of the land west of the library for parking. The property has come up for sale and with the funds from the Linhart estate the purchase would be made without tax money from the city. City attorney Boyd Strope stated that bringing it to the council was just a formality. Because the property would be owned by the city but not payed for by it, the issue had to be acknowledged by the council. Two of the councilmen were questioned whether the city would have to do snow removal and maintenance on the acquisition and asked how the parking would be layed out. Due to the city owning the land but not paying for it, the council had to vote on the item with everyone voting yes except councilwomen Vicki Cork and Susie Kramer.

The next item was a special designated liquor license for Irish Spirits on June 23 which was unanimously voted through.

Tim Johnson was next on the agenda to inform the city of a special price on diesel for just the month of September. Johnson informed them the price for September could be locked in for $3.95. The council, after brief discussion, decided to go ahead and lock that price in.

One of the last items the council worked on before adjourning was trouble with parking on Jeanette Way during baseball games. The council decided to change the parking to no parking on the south side of Jeannete Way from First to Center. The council put it to a resolution, and there will have to be three readings before this can take place.

Before convening for the evening, the council took a secret vote on the O'Neill Hall of Fame nominations then approved the bills before ending at 8:15.

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