City plans video about Nevada to use as marketing tool

A lot of good things are beginning to happen in Nevada and the city wants to let the world know about them ? in the hope that it will attract additional development.

Tuesday night the city council unanimously approved spending $10,000 to produce videotape clips that can be provided to regional and national television wishing to do stories on the economic development happening in Nevada.

?This will provide the raw material that news outlets can use to produce their own stories,? Craig Hubler, city manager, told the council.

The money for this project will come from the $20,000 of interest generated annually on the $500,000 the city received from selling the former Nevada State Hospital property to Acorn.

?There are a lot of things going on and we expect national attention,? council member Tim Moore said.

Ten thousand dollars is a lot of money, but the city does have it available, Moore said.

The national attention the city is expecting will be the result of press releases that the city hired Wilson, Chapman, Re? to develop and distribute to regional and national media.

Some of these releases have already generated some attention from regional and national media.

A reporter from the Associated Press recently talked to Hubler, Sam Foursha, economic development director and Kathi Wysong, chamber of commerce executive director.

There have also been stories in the Springfield News Leader and the Wall Street Journal as well as area television.

?Six months from now you?re going to be hearing about Nevada, regionally as well as nationally,? Moore said.

?You can spend 10 times this much six months from now and no one will care,? Hubler told the council.

Mayor Bill Edmonds said that the city is very fortunate to have the money available to use for this worthwhile project.

?I think the money will be well spent,? Edmonds said.

The council voted unanimously to adopt three resolutions to allow the city to issue Chapter 100 industrial revenue bonds to help finance the equipment needed for three potential businesses to start operations.

Resolution No. 1047 would start the process to issue up to $300,000 in bonds for Green Forest Engineered Products; Resolution No. 1048 would allow the issuance of up to $500,000 in bonds for InSite Services, Inc. to finance equipment and its? installation at an industrial facility at 345 N. Osage; and Resolution No. 1049 would let the city issue up to $1 million in bonds for Precision Aero Services, Inc. for equipment and its installation in a building at 1200 East Highland.

Each company will be responsible for paying off the bonds. The city will have no financial responsibility for the bonds.

In other business the council:

? Approved the reappointment of David Swearingen to a one-year term on the Nevada Area Economic Development Commission as the banking and savings and loan member. Swearingen?s term will end April 2004.

? Approved the reappointment of Norm Tuomi, Janet Wray and Denise Nelson to three-year terms on the Nevada Regional Medical Center board of directors. Their terms will expire on Dec. 31, 2006.

? Accepted a bid of $3,320 from Haynes Equipment for an Isco Model 3700 automatic sampler for the wastewater treatment plant.

The sampler is used to test samples collected from a variety of sources. Bids were solicited from four vendors and Haynes was the only one to respond.

? Approved the purchase of a used rod pusher type boring machine from Ditch Witch Sales, Kansas City, for $4,500 plus $849 necessary parts. A new machine would cost $8,805.24, plus the $849 in needed accessories.

This machine will allow the water maintenance department to bore under some drives and streets instead of trenching through them.

? Gave final approval to an ordinance changing the name of the tourism commission to I.M.P.A.C.T Nevada Tourism.

? Approved a cab driver license for Kenneth Egnor.

? Passed on first reading a special ordinance authorizing an agreement between the city of Nevada and the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission so the city can receive a grant totaling $38,090 to fund the city?s taxi coupon program beginning Jan. 1, 2004. The state of Missouri will provide $2,886 in grant funds with the remaining $35,204 coming from federal funds.

? Passed on first reading a general ordinance to bring Nevada?s liquor ordinances into agreement with revised state laws. The changes will move the renewal date of all liquor licenses to August and will change the hours liquor sales are permitted. Licensees with restaurant/bar licenses may sell between the hours of 9 a.m. on Sunday and midnight on Sunday. Licensees classed by the state as charitable, fraternal, religious service or veteran?s organization may sell intoxicating liquor between the hours of noon on Sunday and midnight Sunday by the drink on the premises.

? Adopted Resolution No. 1046 approving the city?s annual membership in the Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission.

Membership entitles the city to a variety of services including: grant writing and administration of projects; technical assistance and computer generated maps that are capable of showing many different types of information.

The annual membership is 20 cents per resident or about $1,700.

?Began discussion of a rough draft of a possible concealed weapon?s ordinance.