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Wilmer City Council notes — August 21, 2008
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Mayor Pro Tem Matias Leal presided over the meeting after a small "pre-opening ceremony" where Mayor Don Hudson's name plate was replaced by Mr. Leal's.
Conspicuously absent following this week's dismissal of City Secretary Birdwell, no mention was made of Hudson's absence during the meeting.
After Mr. Lowe led the invocation, the council got down to business and voted to pay the bills and it was on to the evening's discussion items.
A representative from Waste Management gave a brief talk on continuing the city's negotiated rates for the last year of the current contract. As near as we can determine, the vendor wanted the City to award another 5 year contract without an RFP. For this consideration, they were willing to give us one year fixed price on the last year of our existing contract. Another representative of another waste management company spoke and stated that competitive biding historically resulted in lower rates for consumers. I appeared the city council approved the measure but it was unclear exactly what the measure was. We believe they voted to accept the vendor's offer to fix prices for one more year.
The next item, diverting $10,000 in community development grant aid from the Adams Street Ball Park, to pay for completed work on the existing parks on Kissel and at Cottonwood Valley - was eventually tabled we think.
The next item, a watershed drainage easement South of Belt Line - was eventually tabled until the next meeting we think.
The pending litigation on the Estes property on Belt Line Road and the hiring of a new reserve police officer were considered in executive session. After reconvening in open session, no action was taken on the pending litigation. Congratulations to Reserve Officer Leake! (ED: Another leak in the police department, it just doesn't get any better than this folks!)

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