HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972-09-05Minutes of ?~~ular i°':cetin;
of i?oard of 'l~er~en of
City of ~tiverside~
Mo., 9-5-72
A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen of the City of
Rivejside, Missouri, was held in the City Hall in Riverside on
September 5, 1972, at 7:00 p.m. and upon a roll call, aldermen
Bailey, Fries, Grogan, Shelton, Swetnam and Vulgamott were present,
Mayor Czamanske calling said meeting to order.
-- The minutes of regular meeting of August 15, 1972, were read
and accepted as read.
Mayor Czamanske reported on certain events coming up: There
will be a meeting of the Business Association of Riverside on Thursday,
September 7, 1972 at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Hall; There is a Missouri
Municipal Leage Conference in the Ozarks, and an annual Betterment
Banquet in October. Mayor Czamanske reported that he attended a
meeting at the American Youth Center, they are having a Board of
Directors turnover. They are trying to find a place for the boxers
to meet and they also need funds. He advised he would relay the
information to the council that they are in need of funds. He also
stated that the building is in need of repairs and would have to
be gotten into shape, they thought approximately $500. to $1000
was needed. Mayor said he suggested that they see the Civic Clubs.
Mayor Czamanske said he took it on his own to faire Glen Hohimer for
$2.00 per hour to cut the brush and high growth where the mowing
maching could not reach. The Mayor also said he had various meetings
with the Highway Department.
Mr. Peyton of the Trailer Sales Lot was present and wanted to
know the complaints the City had with regard to his Trailer Sales
Lot. He was advised by the Board that they were sometimes parl~ed
where it was a hindrance to the traffic on the streets, they could
not see the oncoming traffic, and then sometimes some were on the
public right of way. Mr. Peyton advised that the back part of the
property had now been graveled and in order to use for trailers and
he would move them all back, and the smallerones would be in the
back. The Board advised that the trailers should not obstruct the
view for the traffic on Woodland and also the Highway, and Mr. Peyton
advised that if they have to they will pull the trailers off of
Woodland Ave. side.
Mr. F. D. Bower, Jr. of Jewel Company, Inc. was present with
regard to occupation license, he stated he had one man arrested and
one under warrant for arrest, this for not having license to operate
in Riverside. Mr. Bower stated that their men do use company trucks
as the one he has in the parking lot, however they do have a person
that writes new customers and explains the company policy to the
customers, however the Refute Man then takes the orders and delivers
the merchandise and collects when he delivers the merchandise. Mr. Bower
said that they have operated in Riverside for many years and never
had problems before. The Board advised that there was one salesman
that was very rude and when they got in the house the people could
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not make them leave.
Vulgamott moved that the license for Jewel Company, Inc. be approved
and that the fee be $52.50 for 1/2 year, Rries, seconded the motion,
the roll was called and votes were as follows: Bailey, Fries, Grogan,
Shelton, Vulgamott voted aye; Swetnam, No.
Mr. Woodside requested of the Board to approve his moving
his place of business and approval of the buildings, he was advised
that this matter would have to be taken before the Planning Commission
and the Board should receive the Planning Commission's recommendations.
Mr. David ~~', 0 and Mr. James appeared prior before the council
with regard to having trailers at the Old Flash Market location. They
advised they had met with the City Planning Commission and were
requested to talk with the State Highway people with regard to right-
of-way, and the Commission wanted a written report from the Highway
Department. The Highway people advised him that the right-of-way
eould have to be curbed and paved if anyone wanted to use it, and they
decided not to put this much work and expense into the project and they
would not use the right of way, they explained they just wanted to
get a license to operate on the property as is. Mayor Czamansky advised
that he was in touch with the Highway Department and he was advised
by the Highway People that in order to use the right of way it had to
be curbed and paved and certain places to be used for entrance and exit.
The trailer people advised they were not going to build any buildings
just put in some shrubs. They also stated the highway Dept. stated
they would have to be back 50' from the center line. The matter of
water drainage was brought up and the Trailer People advised that they
were told this was sufficient, the only place that trouble was had was
at the end of the line where the line possibly was too small. The Planning
Commission stated that it advised the people to contact the highway
people and come back to the Planning Commission, and that is where it
stood with the Commission. It was noted that the area was cleaned up of
all the old buildings and the place was looking better. The application
for license was offered and the money was tendered, but the money
not accepted by the Board. The Mayor said the matter would not be
decided upon until the Planning Commission's decision was received
and deferred until the next regular meeting.
Allan Car who operated Dog 'N Suds wanted permission to move the
the Lloyd Auto Sales to his place of business (from 2504 West Platt
Road to 1920 West Platte Road), he stated he had no specific place
to place the cars and also the fact that he thought since he was
financing the auto sales and that his business was not too prosperous
if he could combine the location it would help. At the location where
the auto sales ~fiaap~l~~tently, is not a place which could be watched
as well as if it were with another place of business, as they had lots
cf thin s stolen,includin; three automobiles. Upon !notion by Fries,
that Lloyd Auto Sales' license be transferred fro: 2504 W. Platte Road
to 1;20 W. Platte Road, and seconded by Swetna~r, the roll was called
and otes were as follows: Bailey- Pass; Fries, yea, Grogan, agy;
Shelton-nay; Swetnam-aye; Vulgamott-may; and Mayor voted Nay; with
the reason that he stated if they cc_ld come up with some type of plans
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as to where the cars would be placed on the areaand tY:is is where yo,
wc.ald keep them, and the one business will operate here and the other
in this area, then perhaps T,he E?oard w;ald approve it. Alderr,an V_l,a~~ott
added that he th .:_,ht ~s business as presently operated was a nice loo.:-
in, operation and 1:ept well, also that the cars as they were placed did
not add to the place and thou ht tY~ey shoald nit be sold at this place.
+tessrs. Beck and Hays were present, represent Stewart Sand and Materials
with re and to the batch plant on Matton Road. They wanted to arrive
at sane conclusions with re,ard tc operatin such a batch plant for
two to two and one-half years or .ay ~e three years and not on a 30 to
3G day period license, they stated that the Hi hway Department has
the rain General Contractor, Pitts.DeMoines anal then the other contractors
for the different phases of tl~e work.-- Beasley, Kansas City Str:~ctural
Steel and Wilhelm. Mr. Beck. stated he has contacted tY;e with re and tr;
their entering into a contract for postin, a bond account of hea:°y
loads being hauled o er the roaals and he was certain that two of the
contractors and Stewart wo ld oin in on $1,000 bond each, howe er
he could n<,t get an answer froru Beasley. That •ach of the constructinn
companies would use the road and keep sa~~.e in good repair while ir.
ase and then a.~ the end of the ccnstr~action worl., the road wo ld be
p_.t back: into good condition talon. into consideration the amoral
wear and ;.se of the road . phis a ree~uent would be entered into sub,,;ecL
to `the Ei~~y's Appro al. At the end of the cnnstraction, tY:e bond wu,:.ld
be had to p:t the read back into condition if the contractors dial not
do it. The len th of Mattox road that the contractors would .ase is
approxirmately 1.3 ~:~ile. Mr. Beck sta~eei to the best of their kn_wled e
he tho. ht that $3,000 wo ld p;t back. the road into the conditi:~n is
at present of prior to their se of sake, Stewart Sand said they did not
know if they would o the $3,000 bend itself. The question as to who
will sol e the proble:~: in case of dust, which of the three contractors
wo:~.ld be liable for the control of same. The City would like to have
this w;;rked cut prier to the be innin;; of the work. It was Stewart's
unaerstandin~ that Wilhelm wanted to start pourin. the concrete in
Jane, 173, ansl Stewart wo ld do n.;thin_; until early 133•
A recess was called ana the neetin, reconviened. -
Mr. Witt ad~eised he thou~~ht the matter cU~.zld be worked ^.a. As to
the r~~atter df, th~~ bond, he _~lso thciught thus couald 'o~ wor~~d out.Let~~~een
the Ciit' nd St:~~aart Sand. `% ul~;,.r ott [ao red that St^wam t Sand c;o~-:ny's
:Y~1ic- tion to h~nl m~ i;eri-,~ls ovor _~attoA R^sd onlp (other road in c^se of extra.:e
emer;-ency only) be .•*^r^ved with a `;x3,000 bond and the ~erind of permission would
be two Mnd 1~2 ;ye~:r, subject to a letter a -rrement with thr. City to he a>>^_~roved by
the Ci y .4ttorney~ seconded by Ha ley, the roll was called a.nd .ill voted in favor.
The matter of occupation license wos brought uN by Stewart Sand and after a
short discussion on s me, Mayor Czama.nske ?.dvised it wa.s the understanding that the
occuaation license xould be taken into consideration a.t a different meeting.
Messrs. McKehan and King were 'resent and inquired with regard to the flow of
water on their sro~erty along with silt, xhenever there was a large rain, and this
flow of silt and water was result of the construction of I-635. This .matter was
discussed and the k:ighway ~'e~:rt:rent was contacted xith regard to this drainage.
It was learned that the City had entered into an agreement xith the Highway
~erartmcnt and a ~ortien of the agreement st?ted that the `'ity would take care of
the drama'- ~:orblem. Mr. King inquir^d as to what could be done to sto9 the water,
fro! flowing, on their erorerty and also A4cKeh ans warted to know the same.
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Mayor Czamanske suited rfter talking to the Highway Dear ent, they asreared that
they would try to xork out the draina:,e rarob.lem with usj Howe~rer for the present
the Board decided that they would have the drain~.ge ditches c leaned out and also
the culverts which needed cleaning s~ould be cle<:ned out. The 21cKehans inquirrd if
the city could gut a load of „ravel on their drive way and the City attorney a dvised,
he saw no way in which the City could do this.
discussion was had with regard to hr;vi.ng Don Jc•ck ~~repare bins to be gotten uq
for the in order to construct the ditches and dr-linage on High ?rive to prorerly
carry off the ~,~ater,
V~lganott moved that the City a~~thorize the engineer to submit figures corering
the cost to solve the water eroble~n on High give as the res•lt of I-635 project
and also authorize the road committee to get someone to clean out the ditches
on both sides of High Drive, mom the I-~35 project to the c^st, seconded by
Ba.'ley, the roll was c.•.lled and ~11 voted in favor.
MarTor Cza^~anske advised th ~t ?!rs. tielsen wc~s "resent and he would like
to again request permission to hire an administrative em~+l~yee, namely '-rs. "elsen,
to be under his s eer#ision to do niscell«neous work at the City Ida11, on the
game salary as ~revi_ously : sked, w!,^0,^0 per month '~l~':'.00 for the Police Clerk
duties ?nd *':300.00 for -d ministr,tive duties, the ad.ministr tive duties for the
city ~rould consist of 30 hours, one of the days would b- work in the e~*ening,
this aerson would be a f ull time <~dminists tive en:-loyee, ?4rs. Pa the would take
the minutes of the meting, If the Bo rd ch.os- other things for the em aoyre to
do this *~.*~.s what the ^erson ~~?s hired for, l di=cuss i•^n of this natter i+:,s h-.d.
Swetnam moved th=t the pity hire an administr tive emr~loye~, na~sely 'r'rs. ^delsen,
to be'the sst. City Clerk, she is to work under the dircctior. of the hI~or,
the st-rting salary for the :asst. City Clerk is t o be X300.00 peg month, and
!$170.00 per !aonth for the work ^s Police Court Clerk, Vul~amott seconded the
motion, the roll was called and votes were as follows: Bailey-no; P'iies,-aye;
!'sra an-aye; Shelton-no; Swetnam-aye; and Vu.lga!xott-aye, The st- "tin;; date of
the 4ssist=:-nt City Clerk ~ri.ll he September 11, 1972.
It w:s underst oo d that on be'e t Flatte •~o=
the treffic, they were to make ?^Fest Platte Woad
through traffics 'llso cn"aest bound traffic on
T!c ~rtment didn't thi-nk they had enough funds t
of Ramseyrs drive : n asst ?l~.tte iio d w~~s shown
he ~=dvised that anytime anyone xants to use the
curbed.
Mr. Koehler~s road aroject in Indian 1~illo
Swetnam advised he c_11-d the Sr~ecial 3oad
the City w^nted to lc~~re ~TOrthwood ro<~d as it is
one-half the special road d~_stricts.
d th~a the jr were going; to r edesi n
a stop and the highw<..y to be
west Platt- Ro~:d, the diahw<y
o resurface the road. The matter
to the ili;;hway Department d.nd
right of wcy that i.t had to be
was comeleted.
District and advised th=t
-- one-half the City!s and
The matter of having a school bus coming down ~-%erreto lane was brought uz~,
?nd it was decided that them was amr^l~ room for the bus to turn ~=r^und and that
<~ll is recess ry is to ~~titi n the school bs~rd and wise that it i_s wanted th:.t
the school bus c:, ^:e down the road uneF ~erha~s a.tten~ the school bo<:rd meeting <aking
for the bus route to be on Cerreto L,~ne. The 'ssist?nt City Clerk is toFrite a
letter to the School Board requesting this,
It was su~T;ested to request ?lam on Purcell to fix the ro:~d at his ~~la.ce in
Indian "ills.
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The m:;ter of ins, ~'ilger getting ~~ermit f'or the above grrou~d tanks, wnd brought up
and it w~:~ brought tc the Bo=t ~d ~..ttention that more z=-e r- inst -.71ed. It it ~s
s~.r-;;~sted that ~ttorne;* '•°itt rewrite ordinance ~o. 3~i1 on ~ bozre ;round stone
tanks, same being in°~eo.ard to fire prevention, dangerous, etc.
The matter of having reor~le ~utt'~.ng barracadcs round the gas peters was brought
u~, this es•ecially in ~~laces where there is ^ublic c~arkinv for businesses.
Ma;,ror Caamanske brought uh the matter of the requests from the "olice Le~nartment --
The inorease in salaries ~ d also the request for emsloyment of St~..n°owers as
reserve officer. The ^?atter of salaries was presented at the time of the
Budget in J~.zly and to this date the Poard h::s not all been aresent at a meeting
to discuss this budjet and a.rove sane, and this request would have to be
deferred until the next meeting.
The matter of ~3irin,g Stan Powers was discussed and it xas brought out th-t it would
rrobably cost a~:~roxima.tely iP1C0 for uniforms for hip and •ossibly a coat in winter.
Gro¢ana moved th ~t the city hire Stan Powers as aroserve officer at no say rate,
seconded by Swetnam, the roll ways called and Bailey, `Tics, Grogan, Shelton and
Swetnam voted a.ye; Vulgamott nay.
"!!ayor Czamanske announced that there would be a ssecial m-eting of the Board
on Tuesdays Seaternber 12, 1°72, at 6:3C a.m.
V~.lhamott moved th{t r•,les be s~~s~^end~d and 81.11 ?~o. D-72-15 being bill providing
for the a<•~ronriation of money eat of the generzal fund of the City of "iverside,
Missouri £or tkre rayment of certain indebtedness as listed therein be placed
on its Furst reading, seconded by 'Tics, the roll was called and votes were as follows:
Bailey, Friee, Grogan, Shelton, Sw..tnam and V~~lgamott voted aye; said bill was accordingly
re d.
V~zlc;amott moved that rules be suspended and said bill he placed on its second ro _ding,
seconded by Grogan, the roll was called and votes were as follows: Ba:le~~, 'Ties,
9lieltoa, Swatram, Grogan and Vulga~nott voted aye; said bill was accordinglytead.
Swetnam moved that rules be suspended and that it be placed on its third reading,
seconded by Fries, the roll was called and votes were as follows: Bai~.ey, Aries,
Grogan, Shelton, Swetnam, and Vulgamott voted aye; said bill was aacordi.ngly rend,
as~roved by N?ayorCzs~andky and became Ord. T. o. D-72-15.
Swetnam moved meeting adjourn, said meet ng adjourned.
cc: D. Witt