The Adel City Council met in regular session on Tuesday.

According to Mayor Jim Peters, a recommendation from last week’s Committee of the Whole to the council for a search firm to seek a new city administrator. He confirms that on Tuesday, the council approved Theia Management Consultants.

Peters shares that other items on the agenda that were approved included appointing John Forrest to fill one opening on the library board, a resolution to receive a pre-annexation agreement with Mac-Clar Farm, LLC for a property north of County Road R-16, finalizing a job description for a Community Development Director, and a resolution for an engagement letter for amended and restated Urban Revitalization Plan with Ahlers and Cooney, P.C. 

Peters adds other approved items included accepting city staff recommendations to not park on 9th Street from the Raccoon River Valley Trail to Prairie Street in order to allow space for emergency vehicles to maneuver, a pay application for the Adel Water Utility Improvements for a new well in the amount of $30,400.64, and a resolution to accept those improvements.