The Perry City Council met in regular session for their fiscal year-end meeting on Monday.

According to City Clerk Liz Hix, Bolton and Menk Associate Senior Traffic Engineer Jennifer McCoy gave a presentation about an Access Management Plan regarding Iowa Highway 141 in Perry. She shares that McCoy walked through proposed changes that would take effect over the next 20 years to make improvements, including some revisions to create a new access point of a right-in/right-out at the intersection of Highway 141 and 1st Street near HyVee and consider putting a traffic light or an overpass at the intersection of Highway 141 and Willis Avenue. Hix notes that Bolton and Menk, along with the City of Perry, Dallas County, and the Iowa Department of Transportation are working together to devise a more streamlined plan, and will continue to have conversations about the best strategies going forward.

Hix tells Raccoon Valley Radio that items on the agenda that were approved included two pay applications for the Perry Municipal Airport Runway 14/32 relocation phases two and three for a total of $51,543.95, and a resolution for an amendment to the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees union contract through a memorandum of understanding for grade pay for a Wastewater Treatment License.

Hix states that additional approved items included several resolutions that authorized the fiscal year 2025 transfer of funds for operational purposes, authorize fiscal year 2025 transfers of funds for debt payments for the Tax Increment Finance fund, the Sewer Operations Fund, Local Option Sales Tax fund, and the Hazard Mitigation Assistance Project Fund; and authorized the permanent transfers of funds for the Emergency Levy in the amount of $567.33.

Hix adds that the council also approved a resolution for an employment agreement for City Administrator Sven Peterson to be extended for 60 days, as a discussion of a new contract is underway, which will be presented at a future meeting.