The Farmers Day Meeting

Farmers Day weekend began with a Kimball City Council meeting to address agenda items that were postponed from the council meeting on Tuesday. The council dealt with an annexation, consideration of a future annexation, and set the property tax request.

The public hearing for Ordinance No. 806, the annexation of the Community Walking Trail, the dog park and Janicek Damn, was opened and closed in less than one minute. With no public comments, the three city council members who were present went on to conduct the first reading for the annexation of the area. There will be two additional readings for Ordinance No. 806.

The council then introduced Resolution 2022-12, which provides for an intent to annex property adjacent and continuous to the City of Kimball, which is the Kimball Sub-station located south of Kimball.

Finally, Resolution 2022-12, Setting Property Tax Request was approved.

The meeting was adjourned, and Farmers Days began

At the Tuesday, Sept. 20, Kimball City Council meeting, civil engineer Doug Loudon shared an inch-thick Wastewater Treatment Plant Preliminary Engineering Report. As the city seeks funding for the project, “the report will be submitted to the Water and Wastewater Advisory Committee to determine the available funding options.”

The report described the need for the project:

“The Kimball WWTP is generally in good operating order with only one notice of violation reported in the past five years. The reason for this PER is that parts of the plant are starting to show their age and are in need of repairs/maintenance or replacement. There are several proposed expansions throughout the community, so the City wants to make sure the existing plant is ready.”

The current wastewater treatment plant was constructed in 1981.

Due to the absence of two members of the council, some agenda items were postponed until Friday.

The Kimball Police Department received the OK to purchase five new rifles and trade in their used ones.

Two local businesses improved their property and received Business Improvement Grants. The businesses were Motel Kimball and George Risk Industries. Motel Kimball had new windows installed in its apartment, and GRI improved its property with new concrete, landscaping and an irrigation system.