(Spirit Lake)– Spirit Lake could become the next Dickinson county city to consider a resolution on gambling.
At Tuesday’s meeting, councilman Pat McNorton requested the matter be put on the agenda for an upcoming council meeting. McNorton feels the city is obligated to get involved. He adds the city’s residents need to be encouraged to closely study the issue and get all the facts prior to the July 8th gaming referendum.
The Okoboji city council adopted such a resolution earlier this month.
In other business, the Spirit Lake city council Tuesday set June 10th as the date for public hearings on the 2003 utility projects and residential street lighting projects. Public Works Director Todd Dolphin says most of the utility work, consisting of sanitary sewers and water lines, will be done in the southeast part of Spirit Lake in the area of 19th Street and Erie Avenue. Similar work will be done on Highways nine and 71 between Fisherman’s Factory Outlet and the Dairy Queen; and on Highway 71 south north of Ferguson Landscape. Dolphin says the street lighting project is for the city’s newest subdivisions including the Ferguson Business Park, 32nd Street, 28th Street, Sunland Subdivision and Southern Hills. If they proceed, the projects have mid-October completion dates.
The council also scheduled a public hearing on paving 235th Avenue and 32nd Street. 235th Avenue is the road that goes by the site of the new YMCA. The county will cover 60 percent of the cost since a portion of the roads are in its jurisdiction.
