By Elaine Rassel
At Monday’s City Council meeting, Morrie Marks, a locker plant USDA inspector with over 25 years as a meat cutter, spoke to the Council on having a locker plant in the Marcus Business Park south of the MMCRU bus barn. There would be two slaughters a week. If you brought in an animal for slaughter and only wanted one-half of it, the rest would be USDA inspected and sold to the general public. Only if you didn’t want all of it would it be sold publicly. He compared it to locker plant at Holstein.
Digging would take place this June and concrete in October with construction going on until opening date in June of 2023 with his son Jordan in charge of the plant. The remains of slaughtered animals would be kept in a special place in the plant and picked up the same day by someone who uses these remains. There could be 8 or 9 employed there.
The recycling dumpsters on Railroad Street were discussed. Some person/persons put trash and garbage in these. Because it contaminated the recyclable cardboard, newspapers, etc.; All of the dumpsters contents had to go to the landfill. The Sanitary Services cleaned it up this time but not again. The city will be letting the general public know that it cannot happen again. If there isn’t anything saying boxes should be broken down, use common sense to break them down and make more room in the dumpster. Remember to remove your name and address from the boxes or it is very obvious who dumped these unbroken boxes down taking up extra space.
Now on to the rest of the meeting. The public hearing on “Proposed Property Tax Levy” received no written comments or oral, so the meeting was closed.
Resolution #22-06, “Resolution Approving the Maximum Tax Dollars from Certain Levies for the City’s Proposed Fiscal Year 2023 Budget was approved by the Council. “Resolution #22-07, “Setting Time and Place for a Public Hearing for the Purpose of Soliciting Written and Oral Comments on the City’s Proposed Fiscal Year 2023 Budget” was approved.
Resolution #22-08, “Setting Time and Place for a Public Hearing on the 2022 Budget Amendment” was approved. “Transfer of Funds, “Resolution #22-09 was approved. Resolution #22-12, “Marcus Community Center Lease” was approved.
Lonnie Bentz purchased Gert Linn’s home on South Oak street, has fixed it up, and was approved Application for Tax Abatement under the Marcus Urban Revitalization Plan.
The Council (with Enneking abstaining) approved the Old Panhead Class C Liquor License with Outdoor Service. The Standard DOT Title VI Assurance was approved as well as the Title VI Agreement being approved.
Getting back to the new business in the Marcus Business Park_“Resolution #22-10, Authorizing the Approval of Amendments to the Restrictive Covenants in the Marcus Business Park” was approved. “Resolution #22-11, Resolution Setting Time and Prescribing Notice on Proposed Sale of Lot in Marcus Business Park” was approved.
Annual Audit was reviewed with the following two findings addressed: Segregation of duties (no action was taken at this time) and Solid Waste debt (is making progress in declining each year).
Police Chief Flikeid’s police report will be in next week’s Marcus News.
The Council went into closed session following the above meeting.
The regular meeting of the Marcus City Council was Monday February 15, 2022 at 5 o’clock p.m. with Mayor Bunt presiding. Council members present were Ebert, Jenness, Enneking, Schmillen and Frangione. Absent: No one.