The April Crossville city council
meeting is set for Tuesday April 11 and includes mostly items the
council has discussed before.
One item not on the agenda for the
first time in several weeks is the Shooting Sports Park and the sale
of the land to the nonprofit is scheduled to be closed prior to this
meeting. This will also be the first real council meeting for new city manager Greg Wood who started one week before the last meeting.
New Crossville city manager Greg Wood
The Council's regular meeting starts at
6 PM and will be preceded by the monthly audit committee meeting at
5:20 PM and a brief public hearing on the annexation plan of services
for two new annexations at 2496 Lantana Rd and 99 Grandview Dr in
addition to a report on annexation progress for Orange Circle at 5:50
PM. The council also meets as the Solicitation Board at 5:55 PM to
consider an application from the Crossville Lions Club for their
annual white cane project.
Council meetings are held at city hall and open to the public.
The regular agenda includes possible
action on the rehiring of retirees policy that council has been
discussing for some time now. Councilman Danny Wyatt had requested
some additional information on the cost and savings of the previous
early retirement program. The spread sheet prepared by Leah Crockett
shows an amount of annual savings totaling $282,708 for the current
year looking at how much the retirees would be receiving compared to
the cost of their current replacements.
The total amount of the 6 months of
salary buyout for the 18 employees who took early retirement was
$446,275 so it appears the city has already made back its investment
in the 28 months since the program was offered.
The issues that have cropped up with
the rehiring of retirees include that they must be returned to the
more expensive Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System and the 6
month salary buyout and other regular retirement incentives they
received. Discussion by council has included whether the buyout
payment should be paid back if a previous retiree return to work.
New city manager Greg Wood has
recommended that such employees not be rehired unless there were
“extraordinary circumstances.”
As the deadline nears for a decision on
renewal of the city solid waste collection contract with Cumberland
Waste Disposal the city has been looking at its options. One option
is the city's purchase of a leaf vacuum truck to allow the street
department to do some or all of the leaf pickup. Such a truck is
estimated to cost around $40,000.
During last weeks council work session,
Manager Wood suggested that the city renew the the contract for 12
months to give him time to come up with a plan and recommendation.
Council did not seem to want to do that. Council must either renew
the contract, rebid the contract or take over waste collection with
city employees.
Council will receive an update on the
status of the downtown sidewalk project and a proposal to replace the
traffic signal at the bottom of Water Tank Hill. The sidewalk
project may affect the state plans to resurface Main Street through
Downtown.
Council will also consider a request
from the Lake Commission for additional funds to pave additional
parking at the park between the playground and the large shelter.
The project will require an additional $5,000 added to the almost
$10,000 the park has in their budget.
Council will consider 4 appointments to
the Industrial Development Board, approval of several bids including
repainting the Catoosa water tank in Interchange Business Park, and
proposals for the next city financial audit.
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