The Adel City Council met in regular session on Tuesday.

According to Mayor Jim Peters, the council held a second reading for ordinance number 421 pertaining to storm shelters that were planning to be apart of the new Adel-DeSoto-Minburn High School in a couple of years. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio that the ordinance was aiming to delete the section about the storm shelters because there was a piece of the Iowa Building Code that the storm shelter section complied with and another one that it didn’t. However, Peters outlines that after looking into the code further, the part of the code the school met allows the council to not delete the section regarding storm shelters, therefore the council decided to vote down the reading in order to keep the ordinance the same.

Peters explains that items on the agenda that were approved included a resolution to amend the current budget for fiscal year 2025, a resolution to accept the 2024-25 budget transfers, a resolution for the preliminary plat of Southbridge Plat 11 with Cramer and Associates Incorporated for a 79-acre area south of Bradfield Street in Adel, and a resolution for a pre-annexation agreement with Joseph and Claire Welter with a 1.2 acre property located at the southeast corner of Highway 6 and County Road R16.

Additional items on the agenda that were approved featured a resolution for an amendment to the agreement for audit services with Roof, Gerdes, Erlbacher PLC, accepting the Adel Sports Complex Master Plan, and the Central Iowa Regional Transportation Planning Alliance’s Safe Streets for All Safety Action Plan to provide cost for four safety projects in the amount of $9,075,000.