Macon Reporter

Village of Lovington Board of Trustees met March 24.

Here are the minutes provided by the board:

Call to order: Acting President Brittany Bates called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.

Pledge of Allegiance: Acting President Bates led the Pledge of Allegiance. Roll Call found the following trustees to be present: Todd Hale, Keith Stanberry, April Daily, Chrissy Gorigi and Mike Young. Absent: Andrea Wardrip. Acting President Brittany Bates and Clerk Alma Fair were also present.

Visitors and Public Comments: Harold White, Edward & Teresa Harlin. No one wished to speak.

Purpose of the called meeting:

New Business:

1. Discussion and Action on replacing duty floats at the Sewer Plant

A Motion was made by Daily and seconded by Hale to purchase duty floats at the Sewer Plant from Vandevanter Engineering at the cost of $ 5,840.50 plus freight.

Discussion: None

YEA: Hale, Stanberry, Wardrip, Giorgi, Young, Daily

No: None

Absent: Wardrip

MOTION CARRIED

Old Business:

1. Discussion and Action on Bids for Purchase of Village properties

A Motion was made by Stanberry and seconded by Daily to accept the bid from Bryan Yoder in the amount of $4,260.00 for Railroad Property. (Alma put the description here too) Discussion: None

YEA: Stanberry, Daily, Hale, Giorgi, Young

No: None

Absent: Wardrip

MOTION CARRIED

A Motion was made by Stanberry and seconded by Hale to accept the bid from Georgia Peck in the amount of $2,000.00 for N High & State St. noting that it is non-buildable and is sold as is. (Alma put the description here too)

Discussion: Daily stated that the deed should state that it is non-buildable. YEA: Stanberry, Hale, Giorgi

No: Daily

Abstain: Young

Absent: Wardrip

MOTION CARRIED

2. Discussion and Action on increasing Donyell Morgan’s working hours by 1 hour Daily stated that we couldn’t vote on this because it was under old business and never under new business. Clerk Fair read quite a few items under agenda from the Robert’s Rules of Order. After much discussion it was decided to put this on the agenda under new business next month.

Adjournment:

A Motion was made by Young to adjourn at 6:29 p.m.

YEA: all agreed

No: None

MOTION CARRIED

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