HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/22/1979 Finance Committee
October 22, 1979
Mayor ' s Conference Room
City Hall, Waterloo , Iowa
The Finance Committee of the City of Waterloo, Iowa, met in the Mayor' s Con-
ference Room in City Hall at 6 : 30 P .M. on October 22 , 1979.
Council Member Dowie, Acting Chairman, presiding.
On roll call: Present: Dowie, Roehr, Wilharm. Absent: Getty.
Acting ChaiLivan Dowie called the meeting to order .
Sewer Supt. Huntley requested having updated information on locations of storm
sewers in the city and to have it readily available to him at all times . He
reported 5 or 6 years ago having updated plat books , but now spends much of his
time in the engineers office looking up this information for people with problem
sewers . Mayor questioned why he was not infoiiiied of this problem sooner?
Discussion followed, Plan and Program Dir. Franke suggested Sewer Supt. Huntley
and City Engineer Anderson get together on this , for the engineers have adequate
draftsmen, maybe the information could be put on blue prints .
W.P . C. P . Supt . Bottorff informed the Committee of two 18" impellers that need
repair or replacing caused by large amounts of water in August with alot of
sand and abrasives . He had no estimates yet .
Attorney Kaus Long representing Robert Retterath discussed the settlement between
the City and his client and mentioned a counter proposal . He said both sides are
just a few hundred off from getting this finalized and he and his client are
anxious to get this settled out of court, if possible . The Committee discussed
the settlement offered to Mr. Retterath some time ago which was for $6500 which
included $2000_ for_ replacement of driveway, which would leave a cash settlement
of $4500. Mayor reported the engineer working with contractor now to have the
driveway replaced, since the city did tear it out, so he recommended to the
Council to go ahead with replacement of driveway and the rest, if Mr . Retterath
wants to go to court, let him. The Council discussed the matter and decided to
let the settlement stand as is .
Acting Chairman Dowie called for additional business , there was none, and closed
the meeting at 6: 45 P .M.
Katherine Gibbs , City Clerk
by Jolene DeLorbe , Deputy Clerk