LANSING 337 37955 AAN - BOARD OF ALDERMAN Regular Meeting Minutes February 9, 2021 The Lansing Board of Alderman met at Lansing Town Hall for their regular scheduled monthly meeting Those present by roll call were: Mayor Mack Powers; Alderman Jim Blevins, Matt Cordell, Teresa Those also present were: Sandy Roten, Town Clerk; Larry Blevins, Maintenance Supervisor, Anita on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. McCoy, and Tom Richardson. Greenwood, and Rene Shuford, GLAD Project Manager. 1.0 Call I to Order and Welcome Mayor Powers called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. and welcomed all attending the meeting in and also those joining our Zoom broadcast, video only, as we adhered to Covid-19 meeting in person person restrictions. 2.0 Approval of February 9, 2021 Agenda Amotion to approve the agenda was made my Alderman Cordell to approve the agenda as presented. Motion carried with a 4-0 favor. 3.0 Review Minutes for Approval the January 12, 2021 Regular Meeting Minutes Mayor Powers opened thet floor for a motion to approve Tom Richardson to accept the minutes as or amend if necessary. A motion was made by Alderman presented. Motion carried with a 4-0 favor. 4.0 Board Vacancy for Anita Greenwood to fill the vacancy on the board. A nomination was made by Alderman Blevins continued with the swearing in of Anita by Mayor Powers. Motion carried with a 4-0 favor. Meeting 5.0 Finance Report 2019-20forreview. She reported that the auditor gave Clerk Roten handed out the Auditor's Report for us a very good report on her financial audit. 6.0 LPCCA working on grants for a bicycle repair site LPCCA is working to tie into the bicycle trail. They are also and also a bike parking area. 7.0 G.L.A.D. Shuford. Some of beautification committee was presented by Rene Ap presentation from the G.L.A.D. the items presented were: Relocate/bury power lines Revamp parking Beautify BBQ pit and area Litter control Plant flowers Relocate town hall Maintain/add signage 9.0 Other Business She will on the Town's new credit card processing company. int the the town will then be ready to process card payments Clerk Roten gave an update office and also customers can go to the receive training on February 11 and Town's website and make a payment directly. Due to the time restraints for the May 2021 Powers gave an update on the PartF grant. date. We will start work meetings using Zoom Mayor soon on the he feels we should wait until the next application application deadline application for May 2022. in order to conduct at Clerk Roten reported on updating our equipment said we could use our CARES funds to update our Town Hall. County Manager, Adam Stumb, around $3,000 to upgrade. Mayor Powers extended a equipment. Tentative amounts were special thank you to the Town of West Jefferson for their donation of speakers and mikes to use Mayor Powers reported that we had two parties now interested in the Worley property and possibly another one. After much discussion, it was decided that our bottom line sale price was $7,200. Deadline for offers must be received within 30 days or March 11, 2021. If an offer is The matter of an occupancy fee for vacation rentals was discussed. We will have to have a public hearing to adopt an ordinance on occupancy tax. We will investigate the steps needed Ad discussion followed on our hook-up fees for new water and sewer service. Our current fees are as follows: $750 for water, $750 for sewer, and $200 for administrative fees for a total of Unpaid water bills were also discussed. There are five that are substantially overdue and in danger of cut-off. The Board instructed Clerk Roten to call and explain if a payment is not made by noon on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, cut-off is imminent. Information about a grant that might in our broadcast. not made we can accept, this property will be listed. and discuss at our next meeting. $1,700. pay overdue water bills, if they are Covid related, was to be shared also. 10.0 Alderman Comments Alderman Blevins said he would like for the Town to have some cards printed up with our logo on them. We could use them as thank you cards as needed. He also said it would be nice to include some kind of gift certificate or Lansing Bucks that could be redeemed as a thank you. Alderman Blevins also talked about having a 2022 budget workshop to work on the budget instead of waiting until the deadline. He suggested having a special meeting in April and May devoted only to budget. Everyone agreed this was a good idea. With no more items to be presented, a move was made by Alderman Blevins to adjourn at 8:15 p.m. Bandia Kotw Cerk dafgz Mayor Mack Powérs Sandra Roten, Clerk