The Nashville City Council met last night and heard from Opal Koch of the Washington County Senior Services about the Meals on Wheels program.  She said they serve about 15,000 meals per year to residents through home delivery.  They also have 3 sites in the county for walk in meals.  The city has been providing $600 per month to help fund this program for many years, but Koch asked for an increase to $800 per month.  She reported that last year at this time, they were positive approximately $10,000, but they are negative $9,700 to this point this year.  She says food prices have gone up, transportation prices have gone up, grant money has been less and contributions from the seniors they serve has dropped, making it more difficult to provide all they do.  The Council approved the increase to $800 per month for the Meals on Wheels program.  They passed a resolution to celebrate the Warren G. Murray Developmental Center’s 50^th Anniversary and declaring the week of September 20^th through the 27^th as “Celebrate Murray – Celebrate Our Citizens.”  There are residents of Nashville that benefit from the Murray Center.  The Council discussed electric rates and gave Mayor Raymond Kolweier permission to sign a contract with Affordable Gas & Electric, who represents Nashville to find the lowest electric rate and lock into that for a length of time.  This won’t go into effect until the current contract expires in June 2015, but it could be signed before then and be good for 1 to 3 years after 2015.  Nashville Police Chief Brian Fletcher told the Council about a grant for software that would be used for mobile forensics.  This would be in regard to cell phones and with either permission or a court order, they would be able to get access to the phone and get information off of it to be used in an investigation.  Currently, they would have to send the phone off to get this done.  The original price would be $5,200, but with the grant, they would only play $1,995 and this would include the software, training, set up and wiring.  Updates would need to be done every 2 years to keep up with cell phone changes, but that would cost $900 instead of the original $1,500.  The Council approved the application of the grant.  All Trash Days were approved for Saturday, September 27^th, Wednesday, October 1^st and Saturday, October 4^th, all from 8 AM to 4 PM at the city compost site.  The recycle truck will also be there on October 4^th.  Councilman Terry Kozuszek reported that 252 residents recycled 16,960 pounds or 8.4 tons in August.  This is less than the 10.9 tons recycled by 319 residents in July.  In June, 245 residents recycled 14.33 tons, so August was low.  The Council approved of promoting Luke Setzkorn from part-time to full-time in the sewer department to fill a vacancy when another employee moved over to the water department.  He has been with the utilities department for several summers.  Utilities Supervisor Blaine Middleton made the Council aware of a problem of cast iron sewer pipes in the city.  They have had to do some work to them, including grinding to clean them out, which is what they are doing on Route 127 south near the high school.  He explains the problems with the 240 foot length of the 8 inch pipe, which is now only about 3 and a half inches with all the corrosion, which restricts the flow.  Grinding it out also takes out much of the iron and weakens the piping.  One feasible solution is to have another company come in and put fiberglass lining in the pipe.  He said they could replace it, but they would have to either blow it up or tear it out, both of which would destroy the roadway.  If the fiberglass lining is a good solution, Middleton says there is another area he would like included.  There are other smaller 20 to 30 foot sections and his department can do cheaper, but not large sections.  The Council agreed to have him get more information.  The Street Department shed has the trusses up and they have been re-inforced this week.  Either today or next week, the metal will go up on the outside.  Inside is a different issue though.  There are 4 places that the contractors and property committee would like to see have fiberglass re-inforced panels installed instead of the original metal liners.  The areas would include the locker room, both bathrooms, the hallway and the wash bay.  The additional cost to do this would be $15,075.  The material won’t rust or go bad due to water or from extensive usage and can decrease maintenance costs.  It was approved by the Council.  Finally, the Council approved the April 30, 2014 Audit.