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Council creates before/after-school instructor position and outlines pedestrian safety work near Waverly Road
Summary
Council approved an ordinance creating a part-time before/after-school instructor position to staff a program at the wellness center and heard staff updates on a new 10-foot Waverly Road trail and a rapid-flash beacon for a middle-school crossing.
The Seward City Council voted 7-0 to create a before/after-school instructor position to operate a program at the city wellness center, and city staff reported on near-term pedestrian safety work on Waverly Road.
Derek, a city staff member, said the city will run a before-and-after-school program at the wellness center taking on programming previously offered by the Jay’s Club; the new part-time instructor classification is budgeted at $14–$15 per hour and staff said they hope to recruit Concordia students or similar applicants. "We'll start putting in the paper and see what we get for applicants and, hopefully, we'll have a staff up and running here in about a month," Derek said.
In the administration report, Greg, a city staff member, said the city is pouring a new 10-foot trail on Waverly Road to provide a pedestrian connection before school starts and reduce safety risks. He said Jared in the electric department has ordered a rapid-flash beacon for the crossing by the middle school and that the city will reexamine speed limits there. Staff said Bob Myers’ crew is building the trail in-house and that the trail depth is six inches.
Action: the council introduced and adopted Ordinance No. 2025-20 to create the before/after-school instructor classification and pay range; the action was adopted 7-0. The trail and beacon work are administrative projects described in staff reports and do not require council adoption.
