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Warsaw selects interim council member
By Cindy Iutzi/Gate City Staff Writer
The Warsaw City Council filled a vacant council seat in Ward 3 at the August meeting with longtime Warsaw resident Melody McCandless.
McCandless, who teaches at Hannibal-LaGrange College joined Dick Clark on the city council to represent Ward 3.
Council member Chris Huston cast the lone no vote for her appointment.
McCandless replaces city council member Susan Miller who moved, resigned and filled a seat vacated by Mel Thomas in May.
Thomas resigned after the city hired an out-of-town garbage collection firm to replace a local business.
McCandless will serve out the remaining six months of Miller's four-year term.
Miller will serve the rest of Thomas's four-year term, up in April 2009.
The city also heard from Richard Bemis of Bemis Auto Repair, Warsaw, who is in charge of a fish fry at noon Saturday, Sept. 20, for people who helped at Warsaw during the Flood of 2008.
Volunteers battled a rising Mississippi River in June to protect the water plant pump station and sandbagged around homes that were vulnerable to flooding.
Warsaw Mayor Robert Frank said the city has met with FEMA and applied for funds to remove, repair or replace city property damaged by the flood.
The council also is discussing moving the city's water intake from its present location to a safer area upriver near the old coal dock.
Repairs to the current water intake are estimated to cost $44,000, but the same damage is likely to occur each time the river floods.
The cost of moving the intake is estimated at $75,000.
McCandless, who teaches at Hannibal-LaGrange College joined Dick Clark on the city council to represent Ward 3.
Council member Chris Huston cast the lone no vote for her appointment.
McCandless replaces city council member Susan Miller who moved, resigned and filled a seat vacated by Mel Thomas in May.
Thomas resigned after the city hired an out-of-town garbage collection firm to replace a local business.
McCandless will serve out the remaining six months of Miller's four-year term.
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The city also heard from Richard Bemis of Bemis Auto Repair, Warsaw, who is in charge of a fish fry at noon Saturday, Sept. 20, for people who helped at Warsaw during the Flood of 2008.
Volunteers battled a rising Mississippi River in June to protect the water plant pump station and sandbagged around homes that were vulnerable to flooding.
Warsaw Mayor Robert Frank said the city has met with FEMA and applied for funds to remove, repair or replace city property damaged by the flood.
The council also is discussing moving the city's water intake from its present location to a safer area upriver near the old coal dock.
Repairs to the current water intake are estimated to cost $44,000, but the same damage is likely to occur each time the river floods.
The cost of moving the intake is estimated at $75,000.
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