jefferson city councilThe Jefferson City Council met last night in regular session.

The Council approved the sale of 206 South High Street to build a garage area and take out the existing parking lot along with a $2,000 reimbursement payment to Shane Kozal through the City’s Neighborhood Incentive Improvement Program for demolishing a house and garage at 600 South Maple Street.

The Council also heard an update from Jefferson Matters: Main Street.  Chair of the Tower View Team and the Promotions committees, Deb McGinn said that five of the eight historical plaques have been installed around the square along with the Greenfoot project of having QR codes on the opposite side of the brick pillars for smartphones to bring up historical pictures of what each side of the square looked like back when the buildings were first established.

She also talked about the tabletop cards of showing what certain downtown buildings looked like in the past and what they are currently used for today.

The next project for the Tower View Team is roof top art and the first project will be on the roof of the Crafted building on the north side of the square done by a local artist, Stephanie Hammond with her design entitled, “Renewed Dreams”.  McGinn said that project will be done later this summer.

Program Director Alan Robinson told the Council that a regional Main Street workshop will be held on July 23rd during the day and then again at night about business recruitment and business retention in the historical district.

County Engineer John Milligan reported that he was in contact with Wild Rose contractors setting up timelines and plans for when construction begins.

Council member Lisa Jaskey reported from a meeting about ISU Extension and Outreach providing a program for youth starting in kindergarten to set up educational savings accounts so that if a child’s family matching funds from Extension, that child could potentially get $39,000 to go toward furthering their education after high school.

Joyce Allen, a concerned citizen, requested from the Council to bring her child’s chickens in the City for the Greene County Fair due to having to move into the City in a couple of weeks.  The City’s ordinance currently doesn’t allow chickens in the City limits and the process to get it changed could last about two months.  The Council didn’t take action on the issue since it wasn’t an action item on the agenda.

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