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Milford City Council Votes To Hold Special Election To Fill Vacancy; Tables Action On A Snow Plowing Agreement

November 23, 2021 Steve Schwaller

(Milford)– Voters in the city of Milford will head to the polls to fill a vacancy on the city council. The council took the action Monday evening in place of making an appointment. Mayor Steve Anderson says the city was going to have to have a special election anyway…

“So we had a Park Board member that moved out of town so we had to fill that position, didn’t find anybody who wanted to fill that position, so the law requires us after so many days that we have to push that to an election. And so with that we’re going to have to have a special election anyway, so the thought was instead of just having one person on the ballot and maybe having to do this again, we just put everybody on, put both the council position and the parks position, on the special election. So if we’re going to spend the money, we’d rather do it once than having to do it twice, so.”

The special election will cost the city about $3,500. A date for it hasn’t been set yet. The council vacancy was created earlier this month with the resignation of Aaron Gephart.

In other business, the council tabled action on a hold harmless agreement for the city to perform snow removal on 23rd Street, which is privately owned. Councilman Andy Yungbluth said he’s concerned over what would happen should city equipment be damaged in the process of plowing the street, which is near Boji Junction…

“We need to ask our insurance company. If our insurance company is not going to pay for a snow blade, if we screw a snow blade up, why are we moving snow on that street? I mean why are we spending taxpayer dollars to pay for equipment that potentially could get messed up for a street that we don’t even own?”

City officials will meet with owner/developer Tim Kinnetz regarding the matter. The city in the past expressed a reluctance to take over the street, siting concern over the location and condition of some infrastructure in that area.

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