Red Bud council hires new employees
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Tuesday the Red Bud City Council did some hiring. Rachel Fulton was named to fill a part-time position at City Hall. There were 22 applicants for the 16 hour per week job, with the top seven interviewed. Fulton was selected form that group.
Also hired from three candidates interviewed for an Animal Control position was Jeanne Fithian. She was hired based on her training and abilities.
The council also approved advertising for an Emergency Services Disaster Agency Coordinator. The job pays only $50 per month, but Mayor Ken Mueller noted, "This is a critical position even though it's part time." He said, too he's provided a job description for the post. He's hopeful, too, that "there is someone that would like to help their community."
Mueller mentioned, too that there is some good documentation regarding preparing for an influenza pandemic on the city's website, www.cityofredbud.org/.
The council approved a number of training requests. Police Officer Carl Williams will attend w four-day K-9 recertification training program in Liberty, TN Sept. 20-23 with $150 recertification fee, $135 motel (3 nights), a cash advance of $250, and a city credit card.
Paul Borger will attend a one-day seminar in O'Fallon Sept. 21, with no registration fee. He will be reimbursed for lunch.
The council authorized the selling of a police car. Assistant Chief Dan Brotz was granted authority to put the car on govdeals.com with an asking price of $1052.
Brotz also listed a number of items that he would like to purchase for the department, including a tazer, a duel antenna moving radar and an additional antenna for an existing unit, a portable radio, pull-over shirts for each officer, alcohol test kits, drug test kits, and four no-spray animal traps. All of the items have been budgeted for with a total cost of $5,350 plus an additional $50 for each shirt per officer. The request was approved.
A certificate of Deposit for the Sewer Department has matured and been reinvested. However, a Parks and recreation CD, which has also reached maturity, will not be reinvested as the funds will be needed soon. According to Jim Schmersahl of Schorb and Schmersahl the city is financially secure and there are no immediate concerns in the Fiscal Year 2009 budget. The council approved the budget.
City Attorney Mark Rohr explained new state legislation regarding the Freedom of Information Act that will go into effect at the first of the year. He said there will be a lot of changes and that the city will have to have a freedom of information officer.
The council approved the purchase of 1,000 containers with lids for the recycling program at $9.28 a piece. The council also agreed to replace the curb and gutter at 1310 Stone Street with the customer to pay for the materials and the city supplying the labor.
Approval was granted to the Red Bud Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts to design, install, and develop a prairie garden at the Lions Club Park.
The prairie garden experience is to be interactive. Visitors will be able to observe the prairie garden from vehicle, foot or wheelchair. A grass walkway from the foot bridge to the walking path is included, so the visitors can feel and observe the prairie from within. The scouts will build a wood duck box and a variety of song bird houses.
A request from Southwestern Illinois College to reserve Pavilion #1 at Lincoln Park less the reservation fee on September 11 and Sept. 26 for Mini Drive-In Movies was approved.