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Atlantic City Council Meeting

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July 19th, 2012 by admin

The Atlantic City Council held their regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday night.

On the agenda was an update on the Sunnyside Tennis Court’s project.  City Administrator Dough Harris says the project would include renovating and replacing the courts.  The Council approved the resolution authorizing bids for the Sunnyside Tennis Court reconstruction unanimously.

The Council then heard a motion to authorize the Mayor the sign a cooperative agreement between the City of Atlantic and the DNR where the DNR would agree the share with the costs of replacing the boat ramp adjacent to the wastewater treatment plant.  Councilman Steve Livengood says the old boat ramp was torn up when new wastewater treatment plant was built.  The DNR will pay a little over $19,000 to replace the boat ramp.  Overall, that means the DNR would be paying 63 percent of the total cost of the project. The new ramp will be a little closer to the road than the old one.

Next, the Council set a date for a public hearing on the disposal of property located at 302 and 302 ½ Cedar Street.  Adjacent property owners next to those lots have expressed interest in purchasing the properties.  This means the properties would not have to go to bid and would be sold for fair market value.  The potential new property owners would use the lots for rehabilitation.  The Council set August 1 as the date for the disposal of the properties.

In other business, Councilman Livengood says during his committee report that the emergency communications center has set a goal to move within the next two years since they have outgrown their current location.  He says there was discussion with Iowa Highway Patrol about sharing a new location, but the highway patrol declined.

The Atlantic City Council meeting was held Wednesday evening at City Hall.