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Home My WebLink AboutOctober 1998 E S�ifl�'1F/;� lr iC,. r i'i� j�!(�r✓rF�1a f'��?�,r,�luq ��a rFia ii S'r rh i F 111ulI "HE FA�RFA FACT 1� rr'"m It it w 6 rtr �rlrr;(at r"'(i't6! _ CITY NOTES Garbage and recyclables must be out on the curb by 7 : 00 a.m. The recycling truck is usually Recyclables in town before the regular garbage truck Do Not wait until There has been some confusion you see the truck go by, on the recycling and the time because they will not come back that they must be out . Below is to pick it up. All garbage the list of recycling items containers must have green that will be picked up. tags. Containers must not weigh more than 40 pounds . No yard Plastics : Numbers 2 ,2 , 3 ,4 , 5, 6 waste should be placed in the & 7 . Rinse clean, remove lids . garbage cans with your regular Lids are not to be put in the garbage . recycling, Only plastics with a recycle logo. NO OIL OR yard waste is picked up the ANTIFREEZE CONTAINERS , NO FIRST AND THIRD Tuesdays of STYROFOAM. each month from May thru October or November , depending Tin Cans :: Clean and remove upon the weather . if It labels . NO AEROSOL CANS OR warrants going to weekly pick OTHER METALS , NO POP CANS . up at the orad of the season we will put up signs to notify Glass Jars and Bottles : residents . Please do not use Clear , Green and brown. Rinse plastic bags . Brown paper bags and clean, remove lids and for yard waste may be used, safety rings . Please do not along with regular garbage break the glass. No light containers. Branches must be in bulbs , plate glass, ( ie . window 4ft lengths or less , and must panes ) or China. Please put be bundled. your glass in a seperate paper bag and place in the recycling JUNK "VEHICLES tub. All vehicles must be licensed with a current license and in Newspapers : Please bundle or running condition. They must be place in paper bags, NO PLASTIC parked in driveways , not on BAGS. grass or along the street. Magazines and catalogs : Lt . Rik Haendler , Linn County Please bundle. NO PLASTIC BAGS . Sheriff ' s Dept. I am sending this letter as an Carboard: Must be flattened informational notification to and placed under the bin. NO the residents of your WAX-COATED BOXES. community. Parking has always been controversial, each Chipboard: ie . cereal , community has ordinances on the clean food boxes, and books to regulate parking. Over shoeboxes . Flatten and remove the years it seems that as the all plastic or paper, and parking gets sloppy the bundle together. NO WAX-COATED sheriff' s department is asked BOXES. to step up enforcement efforts. It is the Sheriff ' s departments before dark. intentions to enforce parking regulations equally across the SIDEWALKS;. Please check your county and in the communities . plants or trees . If they are We are letting you know so that growing into the sidewalk area, if you choose not to obey please trim them. Tree branches parking regulations you may must be trimmed at least six receive a citation. We can only feet above the walkway, and hope that this helps everyone , must not protrude into the as if we follow the rules that walkway.Plants should not be are already in place , it growing on the sidewalk. becomes the norm. If we only enforce the laws, when it seems WORDS OF WISDOM FROM FIRE CHIEF to become a problem, those SANKOT. Please make sure: your people caught during that time homes have house numbers , it frame feel they were unjustly makes it easier for the Fire singled out. Department to find your home if they are called out. Remember DOGS AND CATS to replace the batteries in Remember that the City of your Smoke Detectors before Fairfax still requires that all winter . There will no Open dogs must be licensed. Pets House at the Station this year , must be on a leash or fenced in but 'wait until next year . area. Please do not let your pets roam around the NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH , Mayor Brian neighborhood. Stallman is asking everyone 11--,c be on a watch for any unusual LIBRARY NEWS activity in your neighborhood. The Fairfax Public Library' s Please call the Linn County fall reading program is Sheriff if you see anything underway. The theme for this unusual. fall ' s reading program is "Exploring Fall . " Story time is FOUND: A container of disc' Thursday evening at 6 : 30 or were left at the post office , Friday afternoon at 1 : 30 , the they maybe identified and session lasts about 30 minutes . claimed at City Hall . This is a great way for youngsters ages, 3-5 to ST PATRICK' S KOLACHE BAKE , experience the thrill of books . October 17th. Place orders on It not only introduces them to October 13th & 15th from 1-4 reading but is also provides a p.m. at 846-2772 . Annual social encounter with children Rummage Fest is November 12th, their own age . The library also 9a.m. - 7p.m. and November has a very nice waiting area 13th, 9a.m. - I p.m. for our child care givers to wait and visit, or just browse through the books. We hope to see you here. Submit articles or advertising THE LIBRARY STAFF for the newsletter to City Hall. BURNING Please abide by the regulations on burning. You are allowed to burn in barrels , but only papers , leaves, twigs, etc. There is no burning of plastics or garbage. All burn barrels must have a grate across the top. NO NIGHT BURNING. All fires must be out CITY OF FAIRFAX City Council Meeting September 8, 1998 Mayor Stallman called the meeting to order at 7:01 P.M. Council present Beer; Harville, and Stockton. Shakespeare;Absent. Beer made a motion to approve the Agenda, MinuteS of the August 11th meeting:, August 26th special meeting, Clerk's Budget and • Financial Reports, 2nd*- Stockton. MC. Wainwright arrived at 7:06 p.m. Building Pemits: Motion Beer to approve the permit for Evalena McNamara for a garage addition, 2nd Stockton. MC. Motion Stockton, 2nd Harville to approve a deck for Richard & Marlys Nelson. MC. Fire Chief Sankot asked the approval of Matt & Brad Meyers to the Fire Department. Motion Harville, 2nd Beer. Ayes 'Harville, Beer and Wainwright, Stockton Abstained. Chief Sankot explained the new addition to the Fire Station. He will have Blue Prints for the October Meeting. Casey Clark, Clark Farms Ltd. , explained to the Council the dredging of Cell 01 at the Lagoon. The difference in costs if it could be piped to a field or if it had to be trucked out. The Council decided to wait until next year for a decision. The maintenance men will continue to mow what we are now mowing. RESOLUTION 98-09-08- Selzer's Annexation to Fairfax. Motion Beer, 2nd Wainwright to approve the Annexation. MC. Sgt. Carol Currans ,presented the list of calls. They will start ticketing illegal parking, so the citizens were advised to watch their parking. The problem of the City removing trees on their property, was discussed. A committee will be formed to bring some plans to the Council for further progress in the area. Rita Nierling will talk to Vernon Cerveny and see if he would be willing to work on the Grant from Trees Forever again. Dick Ransom, City Engineer presented RESOLUTION 98-09-08 3 Change Order Number 1, on 'Vanderbilt Street Project. Motion Beer, 2nd Harville, to approve the Change Order. Ayes Beer, Harville, Stockton, ,Wainwright abstained. Motion Stockton, 2nd Harville for partial payment to Cedar valley Asphalt. Ayes Beer, Harville, Stockton, Wainwright abstained. Maintenance report: Stockton moved that Lud go to the AWWA Water and Wastewater School, 2nd Harville. MC. The council will wait until spring to sod along Vanderbilt Street where it was dug up on the street project. Motion Stockton, 2nd Wainwright to approve RESOLUTION 98-09-08 2, Approving the Change of Control of the Cable Communications Franchise. MC Discussion on the following items, establishing a TIF District, Questionnaire from ECIGOG, putting a culvert across Seipman, possibility of establising phone mailboxes for the Mayor and Council. Recyling and Garbage pickup. Motion Stockton, 2nd Beer to adjourn at 9:55p.m. Brian Stallman, Mayor Betty Panek, City Clerk YOU ARE INVITED TO GRAND OPENING SUNDAV� OCTOBER18 New Creation Church A lf"dU M CX" 9:45 AM 6 11:15 AM Sunday Worship Services 3715 33rd Ave SW in Cedar Rapids (at the corner of Wiley&Coyote SW-south of Westdal'e(Mall) "Colne as you are,you'll W loved." 8MS VI 'XVA'*d[` l d3woisnD ivisoa g•oN llwaad `d1 fxejllel SZZZs dl `xeJItEA plea ;)2E'IsOd L££ X08 .o.d axEd NIn xOPICA jo AID r