Recreation and fireworks

Med Bow Town Council hears request for recreation board, possible move for fireworks location

The Medicine Bow Town Council met at 7 p.m. on June 11 at the Medicine Bow Community Hall to discuss fireworks for the fourth of July celebration and pass the third reading of Ordinance 2-2018 B, the annual appropriations ordinance for fiscal year of 2018-2019.

The meeting started with business as usual with the agenda, the minutes from May 14 and the financials were all approved.

Karen Heath, town clerk/treasurer, told the council she had to add $500 for postage and office supplies to cover the costs of booklets that were required to be bound and handed out for each impact assistance project relating to Ordinance 2-2018.

A stop sign was approved by the council for the intersection of Cedar Street and Walnut.

Council President Michael Blakeman suggested a Recreation Board be formed. He said with the new Frisbee golf course people might want to check out equipment and, most of the time, that would be after hours. He said they needed to control the equipment because it would disappear if they gave it out and no one followed up on getting it back. He said also when Viridis renovates the Red School, they were going to open the gym up to the community, and someone would have to be there to lock it up and unlock it. He said the Lions Club had softball equipment that could be managed by the board. Sharon Biamon, town council member, asked if there was a place to store the equipment and Blakeman said they didn’t have a place. Heath said some recreation equipment was being stored in the Community Hall currently and the jail had been used in the past. Heath said there had been a Recreation Board at one time and she would look in the ordinances to see if it was still covered, otherwise they would have to make an ordinance to form such a board.

Kenda Colman, town council, said since there had been a tornado in Laramie, it might be good to test the sirens in Medicine Bow again. She asked what time the sirens would be tested and Alice Clark, deputy Clerk/treasurer said they would be rung at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesdays. Colman said if anyone heard the sirens at any other time it wasn’t just a test. Heath said the test siren rang twice and if it rang three times it was a prairie fire and four times a tornado.

Jerry Wohl, resident of Medicine Bow, asked the council if the fireworks for the fourth of July celebration could be moved to the airport, where they used to be in 1976 and 1983. He told the council he found broken bottles in his driveway and boat. He said he was not the only resident near the park that had complaints about the fireworks being at the park. Jim Colman, from the fire department said the park was used because the availability of a fire hydrant makes the park easily defensible. Blakeman said it was too late to change the fireworks this year but they would work on it.

J. Colman requested a fireworks permit for July 4 which was approved by the council.

The High Country Joint Powers board representative Toby Smith said Mike Martin, main operator of the landfill, was leaving but the board had hired two new workers. He said Martin would train them before he left. He said Garrett Irene was going to be the main operator and would start Wednesday. Both men would be on 90 days probation.

The council approved a $100 donation to Carbon County Library Foundation.

The next town council was at 7 p.m. on July 9 at the Community Hall.

 

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