(Spirit Lake)– The Spirit Lake city council Tuesday approved the sale of the MainSail building to Dickinson county for 138,600 dollars following a public hearing that drew no comments.
The county plans to demolish the building and use the site for parking for the courthouse.
In other business, the council adopted an amended design agreement with the Howard R. Green engineering firm for the water treatment plant expansion project at a cost not to exceed 384,700-dollars; heard a request from Kathy Evert of the Iowa Lakes Corridor to reconsider funding for a four-year campaign the corridor is conducting in its four-county service area. 125-thousand dollars a year is being requested from Spirit Lake. The council took no action.
The council also appointed Steve Balm as its representative to an advisory committee the Dickinson County Taxpayers Association is forming to study a countwide sharing of services; approved the renewal of the Shield Safety training program through the Northwest Iowa planning and Development Commission for the 2008-’09 fiscal year; and directed City Administrator Mark Stevens to prepare a request for proposals for the city’s annual audit.
