Story By Donna Thornton
Mayor Rodger Lingerfelt told the Rainsville City Council the city had received its $15,000 Resource Conservation & Development council grant for picnic tables in disc golf course area.
The tables have already been placed, at a cost about $17,000, and the grant money will reimburse the city.
A bid for a surplus Adams Arms rifle was opened in council meeting. No one bid on the rifle, Lingerfelt said, so Cathy Lingerfelt put a bid in for $100 and received the rifle.
The council voted to increase pay for the court magistrate from $40 to $50 per court session and handled a number of other routine matters, including:
Hiring Mark Mayo 17.65 part time driver with CDLin the city shop, Lingerfelt said he can help with roll offs, and that the city still needs one more full-time driver.
Approving a request to buy new lawnmower at a cost of $16,807 through the state Sourcewell bids for the wastewater treatment plant. The city will surplus the 11-year-old one it will replace.
Approving sponsoring a teacher appreciation breakfast at a cost of $500
Purchasing a pull-behind field sweeper for ball center, will pick up trash, leave pellets; the equipment is a demo for $8,142, purchased from Jerry Pate Turf and Irrigation.
Approving training and travel requests.
Authorizing application for a Homeland Security grant for the fire department.
Reminding people that the state no-burn regulations go into affect May 1, that there will be a public information meeting with Alabama Department of Transportation representatives Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, at the Tom Bevill Enrichment Center, and that the city’s spring clean up will be from May 3-31, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the Rainsville City Shop.
In the council’s work shop meeting, Rodney Etherton talked about concerns about Dilbeck Road, and about the culvert on property one of his children recently sold. Etherton said the culvert was damaged when work was done to repair a ruptured line, and the city or water department should make the repairs.
Etherton also talked the council about court proceedings, and his concerns about the state of the country, which he said is going straight to hell. “If we can’t get things stirred up and started on the right track in our cities,” Etherton said, it goes all the way to the top.
Lingerfelt had a question for Etherton. He said he’d met with Etherton about a year or year and a half ago and they talked including the ditch he mentioned. The mayor said he’d heard nothing about that ditch since.
“If that pipe’s blown out because we did it, we’ll fix it,” he said, suggesting that Etherton needed to make clear to the council what the issue is.
