July 6, 2010 Meetings

We have action items for the Clinton Airport Authority and the City Council only.  We will be opening and considering bids on the 60 acres of minerals in Washita County.  As we have done in the past this item is a bid / auction.  If you have submitted a written bid and are present you have the ability to raise the price until only one party is still bidding.  These are unrestricted minerals as to their use.

There are two action items for consideration by the City Council.  The first is the renewal of the CIC contract.  We have already approved other parts of this back in June.  This is the final (I promise) contract.  The second action item is to consider Resolution 793 authorizing the renewal of the Lease Purchase Agreement for the golf cart fleet (30) at Riverside Golf Course.  As has happened previously, E-Z Go came to us wanting our current carts for resale to their dealer network.  As before, we pay them no up front trade difference and reduce our monthly cost by $2 per cart.  In looking to the future, I'm not real sure we will ever pay any up front costs again and we will have a new fleet all the time.

We have listed two discussion items under the City Manager's Report.  No action is to be taken on these items.  Only discussion.  First, you will be shown a map of certain identified properties for you future consideration concerning surplus property across town.  In some cases these are parks, in some cases these are vacant residential lots, and some could be commercial lots.  We have talked in budget work sessions and individually about this for several years.  It is time to do something.

Finally, during our most recent budget workshops we discussed the need for a new roof on City Hall.  Our investigation to this point has lead me to the point of discussing a couple of options before proceeding.  First, we could engage Joe D. Hall Construction Co. as a Construction Manager At Risk.  This lets Joe provide us with a design, engineering to accomplish the design, bid specifications, and bid services. He then subcontracts for the materials to be used, installation labor, and project inspection services.  Second, we have found out that standing seam metal roofs are under the state contract.  Trimco, who has been providing our roofing work recently, holds the state contract.  They can do a turn key project of this nature all under the state contract.  It has already been bid, thereby cutting down on the project time line.