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Truman talks pool fundraising

TRUMAN — The Truman City Council heard from Faith Clow, a pool commissioner, who was present on Monday to ask if the council feels ready to proceed with the pool deck replacement soon after the pool closes for the season this upcoming Sunday.

The pool has been raising money since late last summer to replace the deck, which is the concrete slab surrounding the pool. A thermometer has been visible on Highway 15 for many months, showing how much has been raised. The target goal is $50,000.

“We should have the $50,000 by the fall,” Clow said.

Many donations and memorials have been given and Truman recently learned it was given a $15,000 grant from the Martin County Area Foundation to go toward the project.

Clow asked if they want to replace the main pool deck and the deck by the kiddie pool, or just the main deck right now. There has been discussion about getting a splash page by the kiddie pool in the near future, which is why they would wait to replace the deck by the kiddie pool.

The council said they plan to go ahead with replacing both pool decks this fall.

In order to help raise the remainder of the funds, a Raise the Deck raffle is taking place. For just $5 a ticket, people are given the chance to win a garden shed/playhouse. Tickets are on sale at local businesses and through Truman pool committee members. Mayor Lynn Brownlee shared that Boekett donated the building supplies and Gary Pahl built the shed.

The raffle drawing will take place on Oct. 19 during the Truman Lions Club Burger Bash at the Truman Community Building. Proceeds from ticket sales will go toward the new pool deck.

Moving to other matters,

The council looked over a real estate sale agreement between the city of Truman and Larry Krenz, current owner of the dump site.

Both parties read through the agreement and agreed it looked fine as written, but needed the addition of first right of refusal for both parties. City attorney Derrick Greiner was present and said he could add that to the agreement.

The city purchased the dump for $26,000, which is close to what it was appraised for. The dump covers four acres. The closing of the sale will be on or before Dec. 31, 2019.

Turning to other matters, the council discussed some details regarding the recent election. On Aug. 19, the city voted 125 to 40 to abolish the Public Utilities Commission, which means that the five city council members are now taking over all responsibilities that members of the PUC had.

City administrator Bethanie Ekstrom said she’s been in contact with their software company and she’s also been in contact with Bevcomm to get a server set up. They’ve come to the conclusion that it would best to all be under the same roof so that Ekstrom and TPU employees can share the same server.

City Hall will be moving to Truman Public Utilities office, which means Ekstrom and secretary Sherry Hanson will soon be stationed at the TPU office during office hours. However the council agreed to continue to hold city council meetings in the same meeting room at city hall.

The council discussed other details including re-posting jobs that current public utilities workers will have to re-apply to and be re-hired under the city. The council discussed changing some positions to part-time because of the additional help from the city council members.Council member Brandon Mosloski pointed out that they will need to lower their budget in order to lower the rates.

Council member Kathy Hendrickson reminded the council that a lot of work has to be done by the 13th of Sept. because the transfer needs to be complete 30 days after the election. The council will be setting consistent, additional weekly meetings in order to get everything sorted out.

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