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Versailles council authorizes property negotiations, Capstone student hire and hears multiple operations updates
Summary
After an executive session, council authorized the Village Administrator to continue negotiations to purchase property and to negotiate compensation and employment for a Capstone Program student. Administrators also reported on an Aug. 1 storm outage, North Central Waterline work (90% complete), traffic signal warrant analysis cost ($7,600), and other operational items.
Council voted to enter executive session at 8:07 p.m. to consider purchase of property for municipal purposes, the sale of property no longer needed for municipal purposes, and compensation for a public employee. The executive session ended at 8:49 p.m.
Upon returning, Mr. Paulus moved and council authorized Village Administrator Kyle Francis to continue negotiations for the purchase of property for municipal purposes; the motion passed by recorded vote as all yeas. A separate motion to authorize Francis to negotiate compensation and employment terms for a Capstone Program student also passed with an all‑yeas vote.
In administrative reports Francis told council that the last day of the 2024 pool season was Aug. 15 and said staffing updates included two new water/wastewater plant operators starting July 29. He summarized a severe thunderstorm and lightning strike on Aug. 1 that burned through conductors on Circuit #7; linemen restored partial service by 8:05 p.m. and completed repairs and restoration by 11:11 p.m. He reported that new steel street light poles on Greenlawn Ave. were being set and that existing wooden poles would be removed later.
Francis said Choice One Engineering recommended a traffic signal warrant analysis to determine whether traffic-signal mast arm installations on Main/Center and West/Main intersections are warranted; the analysis was quoted at $7,600 and preliminary construction estimates were $435,205 for Main/Center and $418,600 for West/Main. He also reported that the North Central Waterline Improvement Project is roughly 90% complete, that water loss is down to about 5%, and that Wagner Paving is slated to begin milling and resurfacing on Aug. 26 as part of the 2024 Street Maintenance Project. A quote to mail utility magnets to ~2,000 customers was $2,213.53.
Francis provided AMP Power Supply peak electrical data (2024 system peak 15.90 MW on June 17; all-time peak 16.32 MW on Aug. 29, 2022) and noted planned CIP projects for the electric, street, cemetery and park assets.
