The Nashville City Council met for a long meeting last night.  First, they swore in the 3 people that won the election, including incumbent Terry Kozuszek, and newbies Dennis Kellerman and Erik Rolf.  The committees were then divvied out with each member being the chair for one.  Josh Fark will remain as chair for police, Kozuszek for Streets, Doug Hargan for Water & Sewer, Kellerman for Gas, Dean Huge for City Property & Zoning, Rolf for Finance & Insurance, while Kellerman will be the Library liaison and Rolf will be the golf course liaison.  They then approved of a bid of $550 from Lehde Tree Service to remove a few trees from the reservoir area that are old and rotting.  They will also trim some trees in that area.  This could be done sometime next week.  The Council also approved of the summer hours for Street and Utilities workers be from 6 AM to 2:30 PM beginning May 26th.  Trash will need to be at the curb by 6 AM.  Kozuszek reported that 400 residents recycled 12,480 pounds or 12.25 tons in April.  Because Rolf is now on the Council, he has to vacate his position on the Zoning Board of Appeals.  The Council appointed Mark McCleary to fill the vacancy.  His term will go to July 2017.  Rod Ibendahl represented the Library Board and asked the Council waive the residency policy for the new Library Director.  Dennis Gregory lives in New Baden as he is their Library Director.  He has family there and his wife works in the Shrewsbury area of Saint Louis.  Therefore it would be difficult for him to move.  Ibendahl said they did not get anyone local to apply for the position, as Linda Summers is retiring in a couple of months.  The Council approved of the residency policy be waived in this situation for Gregory to live out of the county.  The bulk of the meeting was a review session on the Ordinance Code book.  In February 2014, they approved of going with American Publishing Corporation to go through the current book and clean it up, as well as get it updated.  The original was done in 1978 and it was last revised in 2008.  They provided a revised copy for the council and pertinent employees to go through.  Much of this had to do with raising fees and fines, as they were not enough to cover costs to the city.  Some involved rate changes, while others had to do with meeting times and places, as well as with codes and ordinances the city has adopted in the past years.  There were some ordinances that need to be checked with facts or other information and so they will go over the rest at the next meeting.  The new book will be larger at 8.5 by 11 inches and reformatted.  The city will get 20 copies along with an online version.  It will cost $9,380 for this entire project.

Kozuszek sworn in Rolf sworn in Kellerman sworn in