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Board of Works moves on bids, personnel items and equipment updates
Summary
The board approved acceptance of a bid for Deer Run improvements, authorized hiring a paid on-call position, cleared a volunteer chaplain arrangement (despite one recorded opposition), and received an aerial-equipment update; the meeting concluded with a lease renewal vote and adjournment.
The Decatur City Board of Works dealt with several operational items in a single meeting, approving a recorded bid for the Deer Run improvements, authorizing a paid on-call hire, approving a volunteer chaplain arrangement, and hearing an aerial-equipment update.
On the Deer Run improvements, a member moved to accept the recorded bid and asked whether the department head could be authorized to choose between quotes when appropriate. The board moved and seconded to accept the bid and approved the motion; the transcript shows typical roll-call language but does not provide a named tally.
A motion to hire a paid on-call worker was moved, seconded and approved. The board also discussed adding a volunteer chaplain role; the board clarified the position is unpaid and that concerns about insurance and scene safety remain. A motion to allow the chaplain hire was moved and seconded and carried with one member recorded as opposed in the spoken record, but the transcript does not name the dissenting member.
Members received a brief equipment update on an aerial apparatus with activity noted for May 18–19 and hoped availability in early June.
The meeting closed after the lease renewal vote for Boundless Child Care and a motion to adjourn.
No formal roll-call vote tallies with individual names were captured in the transcript for the operational motions; motions were moved, seconded, and approved (or carried) as described above.
