PLEASE BRING YOUR MASKS
PUBLIC HEARING at 5:30 PM BEFORE THE COUNCIL MEETING for CLOSEOUT OF DOWNSTATE SMALL
BUSINESS STABILIZATION GRANT
AGENDA
NEWTON CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, March 16, 2021 at 6:00 PM
1. CALL TO ORDER: Mark Bolander, Mayor
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE led by Alderman Marleen Harris
3. ROLL CALL: Rosetta York, City Clerk
4. ADOPT OR AMEND AGENDA
5. APPROVAL OF REGULAR MINUTES of March 2, 2021
6. APPROVAL OF BILLS & ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
7. PUBLIC COMMENTS/COMMUNICATIONS: Sarah Weiler
8. OLD BUSINESS:
a. Consider and act on Resolution 21-04 Feasibility and Inducement Resolution Regarding the
Expansion of TIF Redevelopment Project Area No. 1 or The Creation of a New TIF Redevelopment
Project Area and to Induce Development Interest within Such Area.
b. Consider and act on Ordinance 21-02 An Ordinance Authorizing Interfund Loans from The Water
and Wastewater Fund to The Capital Development Fund to Finance The City’s Acquisition Of
Certain Property From The Anthony F. Griffith Estate.
c. Consider and act on Street Department purchasing the 2005 International Model 7400 snow plow for
$38,800.00 with a trade-in value of the City’s $5,500 making the total cost to the City $33,633.00
from Higgs Welding, LLC.
d. Consider and act on Maulding Excavating LLC Change Order #1 for an additional $1,634.00 and
Pay Estimate #1 & Final of $25,961.76 for the SBLHS Sewer Relocation project.
9. NEW BUSINESS:
a. Consider and act on approving opening the yard waste facility, the first and third Saturdays from 8:00
AM to noon beginning Saturday April 3, 2021 to October 16, 2021 and every Saturday in November
under the landscape waste collection site rules.
b. Consider and act on Special Event Permit application for Newton Junior Women’s Club’s Prevent
Child Abuse Fun/Run on April 25, 2021.
c. Consider and act on not raising the water and wastewater utility rates.
10. COMMITTEE REPORTS OR COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS: Water, Wastewater and
Electric Committee Meeting March 8, 2021 at 5:30 PM
11. STATEMENTS BY: Council Members, City Attorney, City Treasurer, City Clerk, Mayor
12. NEXT REGULAR MEETING: April 6, 2021 at 6:00 PM
SCHEDULED COMMITTEE MEETINGS: Public Safety Committee Meeting March 15, 2021 at 6:00 PM
at the County Office Building; Dues and Donations Committee Meeting March 29, 2021 at 6:00 PM at
City Hall (Tentatively)
13. EXECUTIVE SESSION: Litigation, potential litigation, personnel, purchase of real estate and sale of
real estate
14. ADJOURNMENT
