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10A | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2019 | SIUSLAW NEWS CITY from page 1A The first was a request for authorization of the City Manager Erin Reyn- olds to renew the com- mercial ground lease for the Oregon Coast Military Museum (OCMM), locat- ed at 2145 Kingwood St. The current lease would be extended for 10 years at the rate of $350.48 per month, with an additional 10-year option available to OCMM at the expiration of this new lease agree- ment. The second consent item was for consideration of the signing of a contract between the city and at- torney Floyd Prozanski to provide prosecutorial ser- vices for the Florence Mu- nicipal Court. Prozanski has been under contract at the rate of $65 per hour, which would be increased to $75 an hour primarily to align the rate with that paid to the public defend- er. The third consent item was a request for approval and issuance of a new li- quor license to Dunesday Gaming, located at 375 Laurel St. All three consent items were passed unanimously with little discussion. Action items followed, beginning with a brief pre- sentation made by Public Works Director Mike Mill- er, who was seeking final approval for the purchase of odor control equipment for the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. Miller had budgeted $150,000 for the purchase of the equipment, which had been approved by the council, but recommend- ed accepting a lower bid of $97,900 from Pedroni and Company. The lack of options for purchase and installation of the equip- ment was also mentioned by Miller as a partial rea- son for his recommenda- tion. “The equipment need- ed for this project is very specialized. You can’t just run down to say, True Val- ue and pick up this equip- ment, it is very specialized — so it is difficult to find suitable folks to handle the installation,” Miller said. The acceptance of Mill- e r’s re c om m e n d at i on , which was soon forth- coming, would mean the anti-odor project would come in significantly un- der budget, saving taxpay- ers approximately $45,000. The amending of the city’s contract with Mu- nicipal Court Judge Rich- ard Brissenden was next on the agenda and both He n r y a n d C ou n c i l or Woodbury spoke in fa- vor of extending the city’s agreement with the judge. “As far as I can remem- ber, in the last two or three years, we have received no complaints about our court. It is run very effec- tively and efficiently, and I think we get the maximum from the staff that works there... and our judge also handles the county courts, so there is some synergy between the two,” Henry said. Woodbury also spoke highly of the work being done at the Florence Mu- nicipal Court. “I have spent a lot of time, along with Council- or Preisler, doing audits on how the court behaves and how it is managed, and we were both very satisfied with the perfor- mance of the court. The volume they carry is quite high and I think we are really getting our money’s worth.” The contract of Brissen- den was then amended to include a 1.5 percent in- crease in salary with trav- el expenses remaining the same. The monthly reports from staff and councilors was last on the agenda and the report from Reynolds highlighted what she con- siders the great work done by Florence’s Public Works Department. Reynolds then invited the public to Thursday’s Public Works Day event at the Public Work facility which is located at 2675 Kingwood St. Councilors Geraldine Lucio and Woodbury, along with Mayor Hen- ry, gave brief but highly positive reports regard- ing their attendance at the recent League of Or- egon Cities Conference. Councilor Joshua Greene wrapped up the meeting by commenting on the positive progress made at the day’s earlier joint work session, held with the City Council and members of the Public Art Committee in attendance. The next City Coun- cil meeting is tentatively scheduled for Monday, Oct. 28, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Readers Choice Voted #1 Realtor FIELD TEST CANDIDATES WANTED URGENT NOTICE: You may be qualified to participate in a special Field Test of new hearing instrument technology being held at a local test site. WORKPLAN from page Council before making 6A their final decision. • Public Outreach — proposed public outreach The Public Art Commit- process tee proposes to publish • Subdividing types of information on City of projects into three cate- Florence website and so- gories – Small Projects cial media pages, mail (Under $5,000), Medium notices to property own- Projects (Between $5,000 ers, businesses and resi- and 19,999), and Large dents near to project site, Projects (Over $20,000) prepare public service • Larger Selection announcement for local Committees — including media, and post notices at two Public Art Commit- public sites like the Flor- tee members, one city ence Post Office, Siuslaw council member, one to Public Library, Florence two direct project stake- Events Center, local gro- holders, and two to three cery stores, etc. citizens-at-large (ap- • Added an addition- pointed through an appli- al clause regarding the cation process) City’s commitment to • Evening Meetings — including local artists in PAC proposes to hold the Public Art Program’s meetings in the evenings future acquisitions. where decisions will be As the work session made about choosing ended there was gener- pieces of art to add to the al agreement that a path public art program col- forward, which retains lection the PAC, was possible and • City Council Presen- the committees amended tation — For large proj- workplan would be up- ects, the PAC will present dated and most likely be final project renderings at presented at the upcom- a City Council meeting ing Nov. 4 City Council and ask for input on the meeting for approval. potential selections from FEATURED HOME OF THE WEEK An industry leader in digital hearing devices is sponsoring a product field test in your area next week and they have asked us to select up to 15 qualified candidates to participate. 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