Installation of scoreboards to cost village $10,700
The new scoreboards for the gymnasium and baseball/softball field provided by Pepsi have been ordered and will be delivered in four to six weeks. There are two 16' x 7' signs for the baseball and softball fields and one for the gymnasium.
The board voted to pay MER Signs of Belleville to install the signs. Installation of the sign in the gym will cost $2,800. The two signs on the baseball/softball fields will cost $7,900 to install. Trustee Kirk Pestka said the outdoor signs will be put on a 24' x 7' foundation.
Martha Numi, President of the Tamaroa Summer League ball club,
Numi asked the board if the league could pay any additional costs to have lights put on the back field at the same time the village pays to have power run to the new signs.
Trustee Bill Place said he would look into the electric situation and report back. he is not sure what would have to be done to install lighting on the back field. He will also check on the electricity to the concession stand to determine whether or not it can support a tankless, on-demand hot water heater.
Place will also work to get the lights on the other field up and running. He warned Numi that lights for the back field would be expensive and the village couldn't afford to foot the bill.
Pestka suggested the community hold fund-raisers for new lights on the back field.
The board agreed to repair a bench in one of the dugouts and to allow the league to store their equipment in the old Ag Shop at the Community Center.
There are 153 children on 14 teams in the league, which is a member of the SIJBL.
Village Attorney Matt Foster was asked to determine whether or not the village is required to have a defibrillator or if the entities which use the village-owned gymnasium and baseball/softball fields are required to provide one.
Numi, who works as a bus driver, was recently trained to use defibrillators by the school district. She said the American Heart Association offers a 50 percent grant for defibrillators. She will check with the league's insurance provider to see if one is required. If so, she will look into borrowing one for the summer.
In other business, the board:
• asked Foster to extend an invitation to Mike Frost to attend the next board meeting. The board voted to fill in the pond on his property in January and asked Foster to work out an agreement with Frost so that they could pump out the water and fill it in with dirt. Place said that he is the board has failed to act on the problem for 10 years. He read from the village's nuisance ordinance and stated that he will cite Frost daily for non-compliance with the nuisance ordinance if something is not done.
• voted to require two signatures on all accounts monitored by the USDA. The most recent audit recommended tighter fiscal controls. Treasurer Margaret Mays and Mayor Curtis Stube will be the signatories beginning July 1.
• heard that the next tractor pull meeting is April 21 at 1 p.m.
• authorized village employees to order two boxes of water meters. The boxes hold eight meters and cost approximately $1,000 each.
• asked Clerk Cheryl Pelker to contact the Perry County Sheriff's Department to determine whom the village should contact to drop off stray animals at Animal Control after hours. Village employees are now authorized to catch stray animals. However, the village cannot legally hold the animals overnight. They must be taken to a licensed facility. The Sheriff's Department oversees Perry County Animal Control.