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Sigourney council adopts fiscal 2025-26 budget and approves routine resolutions
Summary
The Sigourney City Council on May 21 adopted the fiscal 2025-26 city budget and a fiscal-year amendment, approved participation in the county hazard-mitigation plan, authorized website invoices and street closures, and hired a consultant to estimate water-tower repairs.
The Sigourney City Council adopted the city budget for fiscal 2025-26 on May 21 and approved a related amendment to the current fiscal year. At a meeting in City Hall presided over by Mayor Jimmy Morlan, the council voted unanimously to pass Resolution No. 2025-05-01 adopting the budget for July 1, 2025'June 30, 2026, and later approved Resolution No. 2025-05-02 adopting a proposed amendment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025; the amendment reflected expected insurance-claim receipts, City Clerk Ashley Fry said.
The budget vote followed a statutorily required public hearing that the mayor said had been published in the May 7 News Review; no public comments were recorded. Council Member Kadie Conrad moved for adoption and Council Member Lentz seconded; the roll call showed Iosbaker, Lentz, Schultz, Clark, Conrad and McLaughlin voting yes.
In other routine business the council approved Resolution No. 2025-05-06 to participate in the Keokuk County Multi-Jurisdiction, Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan after Mayor Morlan relayed an email from Keokuk County Emergency Management Director Fortney indicating FEMA'approval and requesting formal adoption by municipalities.
City Clerk Ashley Fry presented additional, itemized invoices from HM Consulting tied to updates on the city's new website. Council Member Iosbaker moved and the council approved payment of the additional invoice. The council also approved Resolution No. 2025-05-07 to temporarily close downtown streets during the city's July 4 celebration and Resolution No. 2025-05-05 to close parking spaces on the square for the pavilion project; both motions passed on recorded roll calls.
On infrastructure, Council Member Lentz moved and the council approved first reading of a traffic-code amendment to prohibit parking on both sides of Hickory Street between South Main and Stuart Street to provide turning room for trucks and trailers. The council also approved hiring Matt Walker of French Reneker Associates to prepare a preliminary cost estimate for repairs to the Sigourney water tower; Public Works Director I Donald Northup said the tower needs work and that the estimate will support a summer bidding process.
The council approved consent-agenda claims, including accounts payable in the amount of $91,357.24, and set its next regular meeting for June 4, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. The meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m. and adjourned at 7:21 p.m.
Actions recorded at the meeting included the formal adoption of the FY 2025-26 budget (Resolution No. 2025-05-01), adoption of a budget amendment (Resolution No. 2025-05-02), participation in the Keokuk County mitigation plan (Resolution No. 2025-05-06), approval of HM Consulting invoices, approval of July 4 street closures (Resolution No. 2025-05-07), pavilion parking closures (Resolution No. 2025-05-05), first reading of the Hickory Street no-parking amendment, and authorization to obtain a preliminary water-tower cost estimate.
