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Votes at a glance: Aberdeen council approves licenses, grant spending and capital pay requests
Summary
At its Jan. 21 meeting the City of Aberdeen City Council approved the consent calendar, two retail malt‑beverage license transfers, a one‑day liquor license for an Arts Council event, expenditure of a $20,200.18 paramedic training grant, bus pay requests, multiple airport and utility pay requests, and the week’s bills list (with one abstention).
The City of Aberdeen City Council on Jan. 21 approved a series of routine and project‑related items, including license transfers, grant spend authority, vehicle payments and contractor invoices. Below are the formal actions recorded during the meeting.
Votes at a glance
- Agenda approval (addition of an airport pay request after new business item h): Motion moved by Councilman Ronen, seconded by Councilman Ryan Bold; voice vote; motion carried (aye recorded).
- Minutes approval (amendments to Dec. 23 and Jan. 6 minutes to include payroll): Motion moved, seconded; voice vote; motion carried.
- Consent calendar (hearing dates, taxicab license, hauler license, lottery notice, sidewalk contractor license, ambulance driver, daycare license renewals): Motion moved by Councilwoman Foburg, seconded; voice vote; motion carried.
- Transfer of retail on/off sale malt beverage license from G and T Gaming to MG Oil (first license): Motion moved by Councilman Ronen, seconded by Councilman Reinbold; voice vote; motion carried. License number: not specified in transcript.
- Transfer of retail on/off sale malt beverage license from G and T Gaming to MG Oil (second, different license number): Motion moved, seconded; voice vote; motion carried. License number: not specified in transcript.
- One‑day retail on‑sale liquor license for Jan. 25 (Arts Council event “A Night with Patsy Cline” at the ARC Library): Motion moved and seconded; voice vote; motion carried.
- Approval to expend $20,200.18 in state grant funds for paramedic education (includes $16,279.98 to School of EMS for tuition/books and stipends for two paramedic students): Motion moved by Councilman Johnson, seconded by Councilman Ryan Bold; roll call vote recorded: O'Nane (Aye), Foburg (Aye), Liebelt (Aye), Ward (Aye), Johnson (Aye), Rheingold (Aye), Reinbold (Aye), Langer (Aye), Norstrup (Aye), Mayor Schoneman (Aye). Outcome: approved; tally yes: 10, no: 0.
- Pay request approvals for two buses at Foreman Sales and Service: Bus 1 — $29,156.40 (single grant); Bus 2 — $23,492.58 (two grants). Motion moved, seconded; roll call recorded with unanimous ayes; motion carried.
- Helms & Associates invoices (airport improvement project 460-0152-2024, general apron reconstruction and rehab/lighting): Invoice 13 — $151.21 (DBE goals/work); Invoice 21 — $9,108.20 (construction administration); Invoice 29 — $34,194.14 (GA ramp reconstruction phase 1). Motion moved by Councilman Johnson, seconded by Councilwoman Liebelt; roll call recorded with unanimous ayes; motion carried.
- Ephraimson Electric (rehab and lighting improvements) change order and pay estimate: Change order increases project cost by $3,146.80 (Change Order 3b); pay estimate $47,608.35. Motion moved by Councilman Johnson, seconded by Councilman Reinbold; roll call recorded with unanimous ayes; motion carried.
- Final pay request to CDJ Electric Plumbing & Heating for airport chiller replacement: $6,724.79 (final pay, returns 10% withheld). Motion moved and seconded; roll call recorded with unanimous ayes; motion carried.
- Approval to pay the bills (week’s bills list): Motion moved and seconded; roll call recorded with one abstention — the mayor abstained specifically from the payment to “sewer duck” (vendor name as stated in transcript). Otherwise, ayes recorded and motion carried.
Notes and procedural details
- Several actions were approved by roll call where recorded; most routine items were approved by voice vote without a detailed tally reported in the transcript. When the motion was seconded and no nay votes were voiced, the clerk recorded the motion as carried.
- For items where document identifiers or license numbers were not read into the record, the transcript marks the details as not specified; the council approved transfers and licenses without additional recorded conditions in the transcript.
Ending: The council completed the consent and project business, then moved on to the longer discussion about the Summit Carbon Solutions PUC matter covered in a separate item.
