CHAFFEE COUNCIL ADOPTS LAW TO HOLD SPECIAL BOND ELECTION

CHAFFEE - The Chaffee City Council passed four ordinances Tuesday, including one for a special bond election to fund improvements to the city's waste-water-treatment plant.

Board members passed the ordinances at their regular meeting Tuesday. City Clerk Diane Eftink said board members passed the ordinances unanimously after each was read by City Attorney David Summers.

Eftink said the ordinances also:

Authorize Mayor Ron Moyers to enter into a contract with the St. Louis firm of Gilmore & Bell in reference to the special bond election.

Allow Moyers to enter into a contract with the three companies chosen to repair the fire damage to city hall.

The companies are Drury Co. and Hacker Plumbing, both of Cape Girardeau, and Dakota Service Co. of Scott City. The companies will replace garage doors, do painting work, install floor covering, ceiling tiles and windows, and perform electrical and heating work.

The damage occurred at city hall from a fire in the ambulance garage last November. The garage was used by the North Scott County Ambulance Service.

Establish a procedure to disclose any conflict of interest and substantial interests of certain municipal officials.

State Senate Bill 262 requires the procedure for municipalities with budgets over $1 million, Eftink said. Since the city of Chaffee's budget is close to $1 million, she said, city officials decided to establish the procedure.

The city's special bond election will be held Nov. 5. The bonds will fund the deepening of the waste- water plant's final cell and a sewer line and lift station along North Frisco Street. The plant's discharge is out of compliance with state guidelines because its suspended solids due to excessive algae growth is too high.

An estimated $500,000 in bonds will be needed to fund the improvements, according to Ward 4 Councilman Tom Cunningham, chairman of the city's water and finance committees.

Ward 1 Councilman Jerry Wolsey did not attend Tuesday's meeting.