City Council will vote on Humane Society agreement

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Council to discuss 2 lawsuits

Katie Dahlstrom
Herald Staff Writer
CLINTON — Members of the Clinton City Council will consider settlements in two lawsuits during the committee of the whole meeting Tuesday night.
      First, council members will consider a settlement with Municipal Transit Administration bus driver Yvonne Fortner over alleged unpaid overtime.
      Under the tentative settlement the city agrees to pay Fortner $7,500 which she claimed to be owed for time worked on Sundays and in excess of eight hours a day.
      According to a lawsuit filed in Clinton County District Court in February of last year, Fortner’s union contract with the city states that an employee will be paid time and a half for all work performed in excess of eights hours a day, all work performed in excess of 40 hours a week and all work performed before or after any scheduled work shift. The agreement also stipulates that Fortner would be paid double time for all work performed on Sundays and holidays.
      Fortner claimed she worked 59 Sundays as well as days in excess of eight hours between the day she was hired, August 15, 2010 and Dec. 30, 2011 but was only paid her regular wage.
      The council will also vote on a tentative settlement with Hensley's Disposal LLC, which calls for the city to pay the garbage collection and disposal company $11,500.
      The lawsuit names the city, as well as former City Administrator Jeffrey Horne and former Public Works Director Gary Schellhorn, as defendants and claims that in September 2011, the city began to pick up solid waste from Hensley’s Disposal’s customers, without any rights or instructions from those customers and at no cost to those customers.
      According to the lawsuit, Hensley’s Disposal claimed the removal of the plaintiff’s customers’ waste by the city lost the plaintiff revenue and customers.
      The case was moved to federal district court last year. Both settlements also call for the case to be dismissed with prejudice.

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January 21, 2013

City Council will vote on Humane Society agreement

By Katie Dahlstrom Herald Staff Writer The Clinton Herald Mon Jan 21, 2013, 11:15 AM CST

CLINTON — The Clinton City Council is set to take a final vote on the proposed contract with the Clinton Humane Society during its Tuesday night meeting.

The Humane Society’s new contract calls for a $120,000 subsidy from the city, nearly double the $65,000 it currently receives.

After more than an hour and a half of discussion, City Council members forwarded the contract during the last committee of the whole meeting, but with a few caveats that will mean continued discussions regarding the Humane Society.

In addition to voting on the revised contract, council members will also vote to create a separate committee consisting of council member Julie Allesee, Police Chief Brian Guy, and Humane Society representatives Ed O'Neill, Sandi Bartels and Jessica Alvarez.

This committee will be established in order to investigate a proposal from O'Neill that he claims would save the city up to $35,000 for animal control services.

The council will also decide if it would like to pursue a third option: contracting with a local vet.

According to preliminary information, the vet would accept only animals from the city, not from citizens. These services would require a $40,000 subsidy. The council will vote on a resolution to pursue an agreement with the vet.

A public hearing will also be held concerning the third phase of the 19th Avenue North extension project. A number of residents attended a public meeting last week to raise concerns or ask questions about the project, which will require the acquisition of 40 properties, a majority of which will be temporary easements.

Following the public hearing, council members will take a vote on the property acquisition.

The council will vote on these items during its meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.

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