Neillsville City Council Hears Committee Reports
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 -- 8:46 AM
-The Neillsville City Council heard the various committee reports from the past couple weeks at their meeting on Tuesday of last week.The heard the Heritage Days Committee report from January 30th. The committee discussed the financial report, another community event was discussed with Kristin Smith and Deb Esselman, they heard a Miss Neillsville update and they had a discussion on the gem show vendor, beer vendors, pub crawl, a scavenger hunt, face painting and the Thursday night DJ. The council then heard the Police and Fire Commission Report from February 3rd. They had a discussion on the Police Department personnel staffing, a full-time eligibility list, part-time police officers and a job title change from Investigator to Sergeant/Investigator. The committee then authorized the Police Department to create and eligibility list for full-time police officers, recommend to the Personnel Committee that the Police Department be allowed to recruit and employ part-time police officers and authorization to change the job title of Investigator to Sergeant/Investigator. The City Attorney stated they had a change in name position before and it cost the city a lot of money to get rid of the Detective title. The Personnel Committee needs to contact the Union. The Chief of Police stated that the job description came from the Union and he contacted other municipalities.
The council then heard the Personnel Committee report from their meeting on February 11th. They discussed and recommended allowing the recruitment and hiring of state certified other part-time police officers at a pay rate of $16.75 to $20.00 per hour. In other communications, the city attorney stated the case against Lloyd Meyer for refusing to sign off on the city’s paid off land contract with him has been filed and Meyer has been served. The response period has passed with no response from Lloyd Meyer. The case has been scheduled for a March 16th hearing. This case involves land in the industrial park the city had approved selling to Xcel Energy. The city attorney also stated that the Marshfield Medical Center ??" Neillsville water line installation across private property has been resolved with the owners given an easement so things can move forward. Finally, the Mayor provided an update on the Neillsville Taxi stating ridership is staying level, but the state and federal funding share is decreasing about a percent. He also reminded those present about a meeting held last week Wednesday.
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