Projects reviewed by Baxter City Council

The city of Baxter and its council members held their first and potentially last meeting of December Monday night.

During that meeting, city council members listened to MSA Professional Services representative Nichole Sungren updated them on various projects around the community. Those projects include updates on South West Avenue, an update on development review services and part-time construction observation, an update on right-of-way pavement compliance training, a contract renewal regarding South West Avenue Tier 1 environmental review (which was approved) and an update on the storm water basin.

Sungren’s updates revolved around a dam that broke along the south side of a pond at one of their parks.

“That was part of the storm water basin concepts,” Sungren said. “It erroded way with all of the excess rain that we’ve had over (time).”

The city originally planned to recruit the help of FEMA to help fix the dam for funding, but Sungren informed everyone they were not on board, and the city has to look to other methods to work on the issue.

Council members also talked about postponing their second meeting of the month, scheduled to take place from Christmas Eve to Jan. 7. That would would mean three Baxter city council meetings during January 2019 — Jan. 7, Jan. 14 and Jan. 28.

Also on the agenda was Baxter School Superintendent Mickolyn Clapper requesting to restructure parking along the strett of East Station Stried, next to Geise Park. Specifically, to change the parking from head-in parking to angle-in parking. This is part of the school district’s renovation project, which voters will get to vote on Tuesday.

Contact Orrin Shawl at 641-792-3121 ext. 6533 or at oshawl@newtondailynews.com