City Council - Regular Meeting

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here tonight. Thank you to those who are spending an hour of your evening with us at home. Hi, Mom and Dad. Um, it is 700 p.m. This is a regular meeting of the City Council of Waverly, Iowa, and we are called to order. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes?

Oh, I'm sorry. The agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? Move to approve the agenda as presented. Second. Any discussion? This is a voice vote. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? I move to approve the February 2nd, 2026 regular meeting minutes and the February 7th, 2026 budget session meeting minutes. Second. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I

oppose. That brings us to public comments for items not on the agenda. Please limit your comments to 5 minutes unless additional time is granted by the presiding officer. All remarks shall be addressed to the council as a whole and not to any individual member. Does anybody rise for public comments? See nobody. So moving on. Council ahead of you. In front of you is the consent calendar. The following items will be acted upon by a voice vote on a single motion without separate discussion unless someone from the council or public requested a specific item be considered separately. Do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? I move approval of the consent calendar as presented. Second. All in favor say I.

I. Opposed? Any discussion? Okay, moving on to regular business. I believe Mr. Mackey, you're going to present um the historic preservation annual report.

I am. Yes. I I printed off the first five pages of the 29 or 23 pages that we do every year for uh this group. And just for the sake of time and argument, you've got it all there. But it's just to make sure that we're, you know, crossing all the te's and dying all the eyes. Um just some of the things that the um historical uh preservation uh group did. The probably one of the biggest things was that photo display at the Waverly Public Library during May. It kind of focused a lot on Wartberg and they really did a really nice job of it. It was very very interesting. The um bronze plaque was put at Harlington Cemetery as a follow through to the event that was held two years ago and uh 2024. And so that's up and in and there and it looks nice. And uh we've got our uh website updated, installed the street signs to designate Waverly's fifth historic district at Warberg College. We have to work with them to make sure we put them in the right spot and that sort of thing. Um now that the bridge is done, they're looking at helping out. You were at the meeting. Um well my understanding talking to Daryus Darius is that they want to work on something concerning the theater and the downtown chamber event sometime in May now that the bridge is I said open and um they're also going to do a structure recognition coming up here in a few months.

Wonderful. Any questions or discussion? Thank you sir.

Okay. That brings us to the first reading of ordinance 17 or sorry 1176 an ordinance amending the zoning ordinances of the city of Waverly Iowa providing for reszoning a certain parcel from C2 commercial district to R1 residential district and setting a public hearing amend the zoning map and amend the future land use map. Do I have a motion? I'll move approval uh of the first reading of ordinance 1176 and ordinance amending the zoning ordinance of the city of Waverly, Iowa, providing for reszoning parcel ID number 09011760 located at 1705 East Bamer Avenue from C2 Commercial District to R1 residential district and setting March 2nd, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall as the date, time, and place for public hearing. Amend the zoning map and amend the future land use map.

Second. Any discussion? There's a roll call vote, please. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Rafie, yes. And Wolf, yes.

Moving on. Resolution 26-17, a resolution setting the date for public hearing on the proposal to convey city's interest in certain real property to the respective adjacent property owners within block 28 of Cretzmeer's addition to the city of Waverly, Iowa. Do I have a motion? Move to approve resolution 276-17, a resolution setting March 2nd, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. in the city chambers at city hall as the date, time, and place for a public hearing on the proposal to convey city's interests. Am I reading the right one? You are.

Yes. um as a date, time, and place for a public hearing on the proposal to convey city's interests in certain real property to the respective adjacent property owners within block 28 of Kurtzmeer's addition to the city of Waverly, Iowa. Second, right on that one, Jones. Sure. Any discussion? We're close. One more and we're done. I think this is about it. We're one more. I'm told by Paige and that's it. We're done. This is the longest 65y old thing we've ever close. This is about it for an alleyway to split out eight ways. So, wow.

Wish they'd have done it 1950 like they should have. Better better than ever. Yes. Yes, sir. Roll call vote, please. Carl Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Roie, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Okay, moving on. The third and final reading of ordinance 1175, an ordinance amending chapter 102 of the Waverly Municipal Code providing for amendments to the flood plane regulations. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the third and final reading of ordinance 1175, an ordinance amending chapter 102 of the Waverly Municipal Code providing for amendments to the flood plan regulations.

Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Roth, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes.

Okay. Item five, resolution 26-18, a resolution approving task order number one to Bolton and M's on call engineering design services agreement. Do we have a motion? I'll move approval of resolution 26-18, a resolution approving task order number one to Bolton and Mink's on call engineering design services agreement at the Waverly Municipal Airport for the project to reconstruct apron and T-H hangar taxi lane including design services for a lump sum of 109 thou $109,500 and construction engineering at an hourly rate with a not to exceed total of $12,200 for a total project cost of2 thou $26 $16,450.

Second. Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Mackey, yes. Rafie, yes. Wolf, yes. Carmen, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Item six, resolution 26-9, a resolution approving bid proposals from Tetro Electric, Inc. for the downtown lighting project. Do I have a motion? I move approval of resolution 26-9, a resolution approving the bid proposal from Tetro Electric, Inc. for the downtown light project for a not to exceed amount of $11,428. Second. Any discussion?

I just had a question. The grant is for 28,000. What are we going to do with the rest of the money? You know, that's a great question. Uh, I don't know. We will probably have to talk to Interog and see if that just goes back. we don't receive that much or if there's another project we can pair on to this if you've had any discussion Justin about that. We have not had any discussion on that. I think uh one of those things is we applied for it with these distinct boers that we're replacing. So I don't know if that money is actually available. Um it's a question we can ask Isaiah within be nice to use it for something. Yeah. Else instead of just handing it back over. Absolutely.

Thanks. Any other discussion? Roll call vote, please. Rafie, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Item number seven, resolution 26-20, a resolution approving a lease agreement to cut and bail grass at the Waverly Municipal Airport for 2026. Do I have a motion? Move to approve resolution 26-20, a resolution approving a lease agreement between the city of Waverly and Clayton Bruns to cut and bail grass at the Waverly Municipal Airport for $2,000 6001 or $2,61 for 2026.

Second. Any discussion? Uh, it's kind of a small thing, but uh I think we need to change the date in the contract. Um, still says 2025 under number two on rent. Oh, shoot. We missed that. Thank you, Brent. That'll be changed before this executed. Anything else? Roll, please. Rafie, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey. Yes. Resol.

Next is resolution 26-21, a resolution approving a professional services agreement with WHKS and Co. and approving an I do underbridge lease agreement for the 2026 bridge inspections. Do I have a motion? I move approval of resolution 26-21, a resolution approving a professional services agreement with WHKS and company for the estimated fee of $4,000 and approving an Iowa DOT underbridge truck lease agreement for the estimated 9-hour rental fee of $2,48.40 40 cents for the 2026 inspections of Adams Parkway bridge, inter urban rail trail bridge, Ivanome rail trail bridge in the 20th Street Northwest Timber.

Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Roie,

yes. Item nine, resolution 26-22, a resolution fixing date for a meeting on the proposition of issuance of not to exceed $1,700,000 local option sales tax revenue bonds of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa, and providing for publication of notice thereof. Do I have a motion? I move approval of resolution 2622, a resolution fixing the date of March 2nd, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall for a meeting on the proposition of the issuance of not to exceed $1,700,000 local options sales tax revenue bonds the city of Waverly, state of Iowa, and providing for publication notice thereof.

Do we have a second? Second. Any discussion? So this uh is all the next several documents are all coming out of our bud budget discussion. This one appears to be for the clubhouse renovations. Yes ma'am. And you'll see the not to exceeds are beyond what we have committed to. We will not issue this much. It is if something were something were to happen. You had a need for that before the issuance went through. You'd have a little bit of room to make that adjustment. Okay. Our goal is to issue exactly what was discussed and not anymore. So, these will all be a little higher than what we went through during budget session, but the actual amounts we talked about will be what is issued unless something pops up, which I don't foresee happening.

And so, you'll have a number of these this week. You'll have hearings on the second and it'll move forward as we go. And then that gets us in shape to have this done and knocked out before the budget occurs, which allows us to then make a payment during the next year's budget, which takes us down to 9 and 1 halfyear bond versus a 10 on some of this. So, it's a little faster payown. Anything else? Roll call, please. Herman, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Rafie, yes. Wolf,

yes. Item 10, resolution 26-23, a resolution fixing date for a meeting on the authorization of a loan and dispersement agreement in the issuance of not to exceed $178,000 water revenue capital loan notes on the city of Waverly, state of Iowa, and providing for publication of notice thereof. Do I have a motion? Move to approve resolution 26-23, a resolution fixing date of March 2nd, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall for a meeting on the authorization of a loan and dispers dispersement agreement and the issuance of not to exceed $178,000 water revenue capital loan notes of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa, and providing for publication of notice thereof.

A second. Second. Second. Okay.

So this piece is for actually Hines edition. This is the engineering construction. It's not construction the engineering part of it. Initially SRF allows us to have a 0% loan as we process through the um engineering drawing whatever it may take that rolls into the actual final loan once we have construction start. But at this point they allow for a 0% loan to be used. It's highly coveted because 0% money up front. We'll get our engineering figured out. The next one will be for the sewer version of this for that subdivision as it moves forward. And so you will not pay anything off until it starts construction. Then the final payment start when the entire project is done. And this is included in that total.

Any other discussion? So this I guess so that it's this loan through the Iowa drinking water. I've never heard of that. Is this the first time we've ever used this sort of uh we used this for $700,000 on the uh WPC when it first came out. Again, zero P&D loan as they call it. This is the water version of it cuz water and sewer have to remain separate. Two different funds. Um but yeah, it's not uncommon to use it. It just we don't want construction in 6 months to make this worthwhile. And obviously, we're not going to be doing construction in 6 months. So, it made sense to go ahead and spear recommended we take this and I think was a good use of our funds. Roll call vote, please. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Roie, yes. Wolf, yes.

Carmen, yes.

Item number 11, resol like a broken record. Resolution 26-24, a resolution fixing date for a meeting on the authorization of a loan and dispersement agreement and the issuance of not to exceed $222,000 sewer revenue capital loan notes of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa, and providing for publication of notice thereof. Do I have a motion? I'll move approval of resolution 26-24, resolution fixing date of March 2nd, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall for a meeting on the authorization of a loan and dispersement agreement and the issuance of not to exceed $222,000 sewer revenue capital loan notes of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa, and providing for publication of notice thereof.

Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Rocky, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes. Item 12, resolution 26-25, a resolution fixing date for a meeting on the proposition of the issuance of not to exceed $1,900,000 general obligation bonds of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa, for essential corporate purposes, ECP, and providing for a publication of notice thereof. Do I have a motion?

Move resolution 2625, resolution fixing date of March 2nd, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall for a meeting on the proposition of the issuance of not to exceed 1.9 million general obligation bonds of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa for essential corporate purposes, ECP, and providing for publication of notice thereof. Second. Any discussion? Looks like this was for um a variety of things, road repairs, trucks, clubhouse, et projects on 13th and 10th and then the equipment that we had discussed during the budget. Okay.

And again, it'll be a little less than this. It'll be probably a million750, but the one nine is to give you cushion if need be. Roll, please. Mackey, yes. Roie, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas,

yes. Item 13, resolution 26-26, a resolution fixing date for a meeting on the proposition of the issuance of not to exceed $965,000 general obligation bonds of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa, for general corporate purposes, GCP-1, and providing for publication of notice thereof. Do I have a motion? I move approval of resolution 26-26, a res resolution fixing date of March 2nd, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall for a meeting on the proposition of the issuance of not to exceed $965,000 general obligation bonds of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa for general corporate purposes GCP-1 and providing for publication of notice thereof.

Second. Second. Any discussion? So, this is the only taxable piece of the clubhouse that you would have and this is exactly the amount cuz it cannot go over the limits that are established. So, even fees needed for bonds, etc. will go to a different bond. This one has to be exactly as it needs to be. Anything else? Roll call vote, please. Rocky, yes. Wolf, yes. Herman, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey,

yes. Okay. Item number 14, resolution 26-27, a resol resolution fixing date for a meeting on the proposition of the issuance of not to exceed $100,000 general obligation bonds of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa for general corporate purposes GCP-2 and providing for publication of notice thereof.

Do I have a motion? I'll move approval of resolution 26-27, a resolution fixing date of March 2nd, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall for a meeting on the proposition of the issuance of not to exceed $100,000 general obligation bonds of the city of Waverly, state of Iowa for general corporate purposes, GCP-2, and providing for publication of notice thereof. Second. Second. Any discussion? This is for truck. This is for the uh cemetery I believe parks and cemetery. I think cemeteries are listed as one of the things that you have to have a referendum on if it's a certain denim amount. So it has to be its own separate

Mhm. uh item here for um the road going into cemetery. So like if we were to do a road in the golf course, the pool, etc. All of those are considered general corporate purpose and need a vote if it's at a certain limit. Okay. So it has to be separate when you go through the mods. Anything else? Roll call vote, please. Roie, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes.

Item 15, resolution 26-28, a resolution approving an engagement agreement with Allers and Cooney PC for two SRF financing bidding compliance opinions. So, I have a motion. I move approval of resolution 2628, a resolution approving an engagement agreement agreement with Ailers and Cooney PC for two SRF financing bidding compliance opinions. One's for the Eastgate lift station replacement and the other for the CIP sanitary sewer lining at $3,500 each and a total of $7,000. Second. Any discussion? Do we typically do this?

Uh SRF has to have a compliance opinion of some legal firm doing it. So we've not always do this since they left this from the start. Um we don't use a lot of SRF. So the only other one we've done was the sewer plant and there would have been one done at that point in two how many years ago? But it's a requirement for SRF to have it. So an outside firm legally looks at it, make sure it's within the guidelines of using that program. Okay. Anything else? Roll call vote, please. Wolf? Yes. Harmon? Yes. Jones? Yes. Kangas? Yes. Mackey? Yes. Rafie?

Yes. Item 16, resolution 26-29, a resolution ordering construction of the Eastgate lift station and force main and fixing a date for hearing thereon in taking bids. Therefore, do I have a motion? Move to approve resolution 26-29, a resolution ordering construction of the Eastgate lift station and force main and fixing a date of March 16th, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall for a public hearing thereon and taking bids therefore. I have a second. Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Harmon, yes.

Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Rafie, yes. Wolf, yes.

Item 17, resolution 26-30, the resolution ordering construction of the 2026 CIP sanitary sewer lining and fixing a date for hearing thereon in taking of bids. Therefore, do I have a motion? I move approval of resolution 26 26-30, a resolution ordering construction of the 2026 CIP sanator sanitary sewer lining and fixing a date of March 16th, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall for a public hearing thereon and taking of bids therefore. A second. Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Jones, yes. Kangas,

yes. Mackey, yes. Rafie, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Item 18, resolution 26-31, a resolution approving the detour detour revocation of the DOT initiated detour of primary highways onto local roads and authorize the mayor to sign the detour revocation information sheet. Do I have a motion? I move to approve resolution 26-31, a resolution approving the detour revocation for the DOT initiated detour primary highways onto local roads and authorize the mayor to sign the detour revocation information sheet. Do you have a second? Second discussion.

Okay. I just have a question about the amount of money. Is this what we're going to get from them for any damage that was done to the detour? Yeah, that is correct. This is a estimation they give you based on some formula I cannot quite understand and uh this is actually higher than they initially quoted us or they gave to us as the amount when we signed the initial agreement for the detour because of the time frame extended a little bit longer than what they originally intended. So so it really has nothing to do with what actual damage might have been done to the road. It's a figure of how many vehicles were down that road. Okay. It's theoretical damage. I don't know that it's actually how much will it cost to fix.

And that's kind of a that's a tough question. You know, we've already had some damage there anyways, especially on 10th Avenue. Um, which we're going to address that, you know, soon. But yeah, there's some more damage, but it's hard to say what how it compared. But, you know, it's almost 52,000. I don't want to turn it down. No, I mean I'm not saying we should turn it down, but but it just uh it's not going to be it's about 10% of what we think some of this may cost us to get it all figured out. So, all right. All right. Roll call vote, please. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Rocky, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes.

Item 19, resolution 26-32, a resolution setting bid letting date and setting public hearing for the Oh my goodness. Bumin minutes. Thank you. Seal code program 2026. Do I have a motion? I'll move approval of resolution 26-32. A resolution setting bid letting date for March 10th, 2026 and setting April 6th, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall as the date, time, and place for a public hearing to review and approve the Batuminous Sealed Coat Program 2026 project plans, specifications, form of contract, and estimated cost. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion?

That's how you tell That's how you tell if somebody's new. I was just waiting for somebody new to to have to say it. to move it. Get another pronunciation of it. There's a reason this is the third year. I haven't done that motion. So, it looks like this is going to be um near the high school, near the hospital. Those are the micro shows. Do you know about how much that's going to be total roughly? Uh we didn't count the actual blocks this year. It's it's a little smaller than the years prior.

Okay. That's what I was wondering. About the same size. Yeah, about same size, a little bit less this year. Actually, we're including in some of that out there on 20th Street Southwest as well by Red Fox. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there is. We already have a second. I got confused. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Roll call, please. Carla Mackey, yes. Roie, yes. Wolf, yes. Herman, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Item 20, resolution 26-33, a resolution setting bid letting date and setting public hearing for the parks maintenance parking lot. Do I have a motion to approve?

I would move approval of resolution 2633. A resolution setting February 24th, 2026 as the bid letting date and setting March 16th, 2026 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall as the date, time, and place for a public hearing to review and approve the parks maintenance, parking, lot specifications, form of contract, and estimated cost. Have a second. Second. Any discussion? Um, excuse me. I think that's supposed to Oh, never mind. Sorry. Never mind. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. Rafie, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes.

Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes.

Item 21, approval of the mayoral appointments. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the following mayoral appointments. John Law is appointed to the Leisure Services Commission to fill a vacancy for term ending December 31, 2028. A second. Second. Um I talked to Mr. Law on the phone. He seems very eager. He has a background in leisure service adjacent things. So I think he's going to be a good addition to the committee. Um so it's nice to have somebody step up. So this is a voice vote. All in favor say I. I. I opposed.

Okay. Council, you have received the reports from boards and commissions. Do you have any discussion? That brings us to staff updates. Mr. Bronner, we we know there's sad issues out there along the streets. Um just with the warm weather, we're still going to wait till winter's officially over. We'll be able to do some repairs. has some calls just kind of keep in mind. That's all we have today. Okay, that brings us to city council comments. Council person,

um just calling people to uh attention to the symphony concert this coming weekend. There's a concert Friday night and Saturday and they're playing Aaron Copeland and I think they're giving a preconcert talk with some Century Farm families which might be interesting. So hopefully people will turn out for that. Cool. Council person Kangas, nothing tonight. Council person Harmon, nothing tonight. Council person Jones, I just hope everybody's able to enjoy this unusually warm weather and go state. Good game tonight. Council person Mackie,

I'll echo what council person Rothy said. Um, I will not be at my beers with bars this afternoon or this evening after the meeting as I will be going to a rehearsal for a set concert. I'd urge people to go. The uh conductor Rebecca Neaterhives are managed to snake a over $11,000 grant from the state of Iowa to help fund this concert because it involved farms and families. It's about the uh Great Depression and uh you will recognize probably two tunes out of it. But it's well done and they're getting fired up for it and we have two more rehearsals and then the two shows. So I recommend going. It'll be a good event. Wonderful. Council person Wolf.

Last week, um, the kids feeding kids at the middle school program did had a really cool event. It had five other schools join them in teaching about food insecurity and then creating healthy meals that they give out usually through United Way. Um, so want to give a shout out to them. And there's a ribbon cutting at Northeast Iowa Community Action 11:40 tomorrow uh to open their food pantry. Okay. And I guess that means me. So, um, I took my I dropped my oldest daughter off at the airport Friday and she is going to Malta for this semester. So, yes, it is a knife in my heart. She's only 19, but it's great. Um, so she first went to college in North Carolina and now went to Malta. And the thing that stuck with her and I think is worth sharing is she came back and said, "Mom, people in Waverly are so nice." She said, "It took me two weeks of smiling at strangers and nobody ever smiled back and then I realized that that's an Iowa thing and a Waverly thing." And she said, "Out and like people don't hold doors open for you." And the thing, it's kind of a joke with our family now. In other states, people don't push their put their shopping carts back in the little corral. And now that I say that, you're going to notice that when you go to other states. So, for a 19-year-old to be able to reflect and go, "Wow, Waverly is a really nice city." I think that speaks volumes to our city. I want to thank all of you who have helped create that environment for kids who are seeing that as they grow up. and then take that forth out into the world. So with that, we are going to move into executive session to discuss collective bargaining strategy for impending negotiations as provided by section 2073 of the code of Iowa. Do I have a motion? I will move to go into executive discuss session to discuss collective bargaining strategy for pending negotiations as provided by section 20.17 subsection 3 of the code of viol.

Rafie, yes. Wolf, yes. Harmon, yes. Jones, yes. Kangas, yes. Mackey, yes. Okay, at this point everybody clears Oh, is that