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Milo council approves wastewater payments, adopts mobile-food vendor rules, names Lions Legacy Trail
Summary
At its July 15 meeting, the Milo City Council approved several wastewater project payments and a loan disbursement, adopted Ordinance 2024-04 (Chapter 125, Mobile Food Vendors) by waiving a third reading, approved multiple RAGBRAI event permits, named the new multiuse path 'Lions Legacy Trail' and approved employee wage increases. The council also noted TAP grant reimbursements and two small park grants.
The Milo City Council on July 15 approved a series of motions that moved forward the city’s wastewater construction work, established new rules for mobile food vendors and cleared event permits tied to RAGBRAI.
Mayor Hall called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.; Councilmembers Kinser (joining by phone), Wadle, Griggs and Mason answered roll call. The council approved the meeting agenda with the addition of fiscal-year-end payment approval and removal of one new-business item.
The council approved the consent agenda, which the minutes list as including the July 1 meeting minutes, accounts payable (June 10, 2024: $935.09; June 30, 2024: $7,204.10; July 2–15, 2024: $12,316.95) and the June 2024 bank reconciliation report.
On the wastewater project, the council acknowledged progress meeting notes from June 24, approved monthly construction monitoring report No. 12 and authorized several payments tied to the project: $6,890.60 to Hall Engineering and $126,455.45 to Blue Ribbon Builders. The minutes also record a motion to approve wastewater loan disbursement No. 12 for $133,346.05; the motion text is recorded but a roll-call result is not explicitly printed for that line.
Councilmembers approved three FY2024 transfers to capital-improvement accounts: Resolution 2024-14 (fire department), Resolution 2024-15 (EMS) and Resolution 2024-16 (library). Each resolution was moved and seconded and recorded in the minutes as approved by roll call with Councilmembers Kinser, Wadle, Griggs and Mason voting aye and Rasmussen listed as absent.
As part of new-business approvals tied to Milo’s RAGBRAI events, the council granted Houston’s on Main an annual alcohol permit and a temporary premise amendment for an outdoor beer garden; approved a special Class C retail license for Lucky Wine Slushies for a 20-by-40-foot space in front of the Community Center; and approved a street-closing and special-permit application for the Wine Down to Milo Event in City Park (Councilmember Wadle recorded an abstention on that final permit). All event-related permits were recorded as approved in the minutes.
On land-use/accessory rules, Mayor Hall administered the second reading of Ordinance 2024-04, which adds Chapter 125, Mobile Food Vendors, to the City of Milo Code. The council voted to approve the second reading and waive the third reading; the Clerk was directed to publish the ordinance.
The council approved wage adjustments effective July 1, 2024, raising Joel Mosher’s hourly rate to $22 and Matt Hansen’s to $20, and then amended Resolution 2024-11 to reflect the updated wages and benefits authorization.
Council also finalized the name of the new multiuse trail as 'Lions Legacy Trail.' Clerk reported the first TAP grant reimbursement of $96,969.39 had been received and would be deposited into the general fund to replace monies temporarily used for trail costs; a second TAP reimbursement of $90,908.69 is expected in August. The council discussed donated signage and requested the Lions Club present sign concepts and bear sign costs; an onsite hydration station at the north trailhead was identified and will be ordered and installed by Hembry.
Mayor Hall said the city received a $10,000 Prairie Meadows Grant and a $5,000 Warren County Philanthropic Partnership Grant to support the City Park pavilion project. There were no public comments. The council adjourned at 8:02 p.m.
Note on the minutes: the meeting record lists Councilmember Rasmussen as absent for several roll-call votes, but the consent-agenda line records Rasmussen among the ayes; that inconsistency appears in the provided minutes and is reported here rather than corrected by the clerk’s text.
