The Town Council of Winona Lake, Indiana met in a regular session on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 in the Town Hall at 7:00 a.m.

 

COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT:             Jim Lancaster, Joy Lohse, Sue Gooding, Terry Howie and Randy Swanson

 

ABSENT:                                           Pete O’Connell, Retha Hicks, Paul Schmitt and Mitch Titus

 

OTHERS PRESENT:                         Craig Allebach, Tim Goshert

 

Opening

 

Resident Jerry Nelson opened the meeting with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

Approval of minutes – Lancaster motioned to accept minutes, motion was seconded by Gooding. Minutes were approved as written.

 

 “Winona Happenings”

            June 5 & 6 – Annual Art Fair

            June 12, 2:30 pm – Plant Adventure Ultra Runs on the Mountain Bike Trails

            June 20 to July 17 – MasterWorks Festival

            June 26, 8:00 am – Optimist Triathlon

 

Floor Topics:  Jay Shively, a resident in the Heritage Park subdivision, thanked the police department for their help with the cones, the no parking zones and traffic in the garage sales that the subdivision had last Saturday.

 

Resolution 2010-5-1 Authorization to Invest Funds - Gooding made a motion to table the resolution and Lohse seconded.  The Council approved the motion 5 - 0.

 

Reports from Supervisors:

 

Goshert – Is requesting to purchase a cherry picker.  He found a year 2000 that has a 23 foot extension.  Gooding made a motion to purchase the cherry picker for up to $1,000.00.  Motion seconded by Lohse.  The council approved the motion 5-0.

 

Lancaster – Talked about the trail run and it was a successful event for everyone.

 

Gooding – Questioned about whether the town had a travel policy and would like to have this researched and get some policies together from other businesses and communities to see what they are doing for the council to look at.

 

Lohse – Wanted to follow up on a time for a joint meeting on the parking lot with the park board.  Lohse updated the council on the LARE grant as well as a meeting that was occurring on brainstorming about community marketing.

 

Allebach – Updated the council about another committee in community marketing, a branding committee.  Also, there is a promotion that is being worked on for the upcoming holiday season to bring people in from the county and out of county to shop in the various communities within Kosciusko County.

 

Howie – Updated the council on the meeting Gooding and he attended with the Stonehenge Homeowners Association.  Howie brought them up to speed on what was being done with the street and storm drainage project and the timeline of activity to get the easements finalized.  The association had a lot of questions about CR 250 E, also.

 

Lohse made motion and Gooding seconded to adjourn the meeting.  Motion carried 5-0.

 

Meeting was adjourned

 

 

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TERRY HOWIE                                            RETHA S. HICKS

PRESIDENT                                                  CLERK-TREASURER