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Walker aldermen plan to spruce up town
Nevada Daily Mail
Plans for sprucing up Walker dominated the Walker Board of Aldermen meeting on May 19.
Mayor Phillip Martin recommended removing a leaking fire hydrant and putting in a new one between the shelter house and fence for $67, replacing the windows on the community building, purchasing ADA compliant door handles for the community building, as well as painting the trim on the shelter house and the community center doors and bench.
"The bench in front of this building is an absolute disaster," Martin said. "For a city of pride, it looks like a city of disaster."
Alderman Lois McGraw suggested replacing the stop sign at Fifth and Leslie streets and repairing the park's restrooms.
"They need towel holders and a roof needs to be repaired," Martin said. "It wouldn't hurt for them to be painted again."
Alderman Norman Radde brought up a property with a fallen tree needing to be addressed.
"William offered to cut up the tree for the wood, but we can't get the property owner to move," Radde said. "We finally got him to cut the limbs back to the ditch."
City employee William Jeffery said he had received two complaints about the property.
"It hasn't been mowed this year," Jeffery said. "Ever since that tree's been down, there's been nothing but snakes down there."
Martin replied he would look into enforcing the ordinance. He added a handicap sign for the community building and backstops on the tennis court needed to be addressed as well.
In other business, the aldermen set July 12 as a town cleanup day and will find a vet to operate a dog clinic in the summer for residents.
"One of the big obstacles on stray dogs is we don't have the local Humane Society anymore to lean on and have some place to go with dogs," Radde said. "We're on our own. We need a holding pen."
Martin asked Jeffery to get prices on materials for a cement slab with a six-foot chain-link fence.
In his report, Martin told the aldermen he is going over insurance coverage and the budget for the town is not yet complete.
"Let's just say I'm revamping a lot of stuff," he said.
He also said the town's $750 tornado siren became a $3,000 project to wire and repair.
"We had a siren that was not working, and as a public entity we are required to protect our citizens," he said. "It's done, and there's nothing else we can do about it."
He told the aldermen he had been talking with Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission and Bartlett and West engineering firm about getting grant funds to bring the water system's detention chamber into Department of Natural Resources' compliance.
He added the town needed a treasurer to oversee expenditures and revenues. The aldermen approved appointing a treasurer.