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Newton City Council unanimously re-adopts Comprehensive Plan and approves consent agenda
Summary
At its April 5 meeting the Newton City Council unanimously approved the consent agenda, adding a rain date for a school event and re-adopting the City of Newton Comprehensive Plan with amendments; the package also included multiple water and wastewater resolutions and two sole-source procurements.
The Newton City Council unanimously approved the consent agenda at its April 5 meeting, re-adopting the City of Newton Comprehensive Plan with amendments and approving a set of utility and procurement resolutions.
Interim City Manager Sean Hovis asked the council to add a rain date of April 14 for the Newton-Conover City Schools Very Special Arts Festival; the addition was included in the consent motion. Council Member Ed Sain read a proclamation recognizing April as Child Abuse Prevention Month, Council Member Roy Johnson read a telecommunications proclamation, and Mayor Pro Tem John Stiver read a Lineworker Appreciation proclamation.
The consent package listed by the city clerk included street-closure considerations for the Music on Main series and the Newton-Conover festival; a re-adoption of the City of Newton Comprehensive Plan with amendments; resolutions to conduct wastewater and water asset inventories and assessments; resolutions concerning wastewater and water replacement projects; and acceptance of sole-source procurements for sludge hauling and for pebble lime used at the wastewater treatment plant. The council approved the consent agenda by unanimous vote (Mayor Eddie Haupt; Mayor Pro Tem John Stiver; Council Members Jerry Hodge, Roy Johnson, Jody Dixon, Ed Sain and Beverly Danner).
The council did not discuss the substantive contents or any amendments to the comprehensive plan on the record during the meeting; details of the amendments were not specified in the transcript. The clerk's record indicates the ordinances, resolutions and proclamations are on file in the Office of the City Clerk.
No separate motions were recorded to remove or separately consider items from the consent agenda; the council carried the consent package as a single motion.
