City adopts 3 ordinances

    The Oct. 17 Holyoke City Council meeting began with a public hearing for three ordinances, all of which were adopted unanimously.
    Ordinance No. 2-2017 authorized schedule J of the electrical resources pooling agreement with the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska. It is a five-year power contract to go into effect when the current contract ends Sept. 30, 2018.
    Ordinance No. 3-2017 authorizes the sale of a tract of land located at 325 E. Bignel St. to Grassland Properties LLC. Ordinance No. 4-2017 authorizes the sale of a tract of land located at 344 E. Akron St. to Phillip and Carolyn Wirges.
    
Subdivision exemption granted
    K.C. Martin of Grassland Homes & Building requested a subdivision exemption. Council members approved the request to rotate lots 7 and 8 of 303 N. Phelan Ave. 90 degrees. Martin intends to build a duplex, and the rotation will better utilize the available building envelope, keeping the proposed project out of the flood plain.
    
Second codification quote received
    Having met to discuss codification of the Holyoke Municipal Code, the committee asked City Clerk/Treasurer Kathy Olofson to get another quote, in addition to the one from Municode.
    Olofson contacted Code Publishing Company for a quote. She suggested to the council that they take time to compare both options thoroughly.
    
Officials report
    City Superintendent Mark Brown reported that all departments have been busy working on the West Kunkel Street project.
    The electric department handled two power outages. An Oct. 9 outage in the 100-800 blocks of South Bowman and Sherman avenues was caused by a tree branch. An Oct. 15 outage in the 100-400 blocks of South Reynolds and Coleman avenues was caused by a squirrel. They have also been installing new electric service for a new house on South Worley Avenue. In addition, water and sewer continues work on backflows and broken water meters.
    Brown also reported that Scholl Oil & Transportation is no longer carrying avgas. Out of necessity, the City bought an entire load, but in the future, they will be looking for another airport to split a load with.

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