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Farm sale,
juvenile costs up, bike trail enhancements and more
[JUNE
27, 2006]
The county farm is now up for sale. The survey
showed the property located northwest of Lincoln off old Route 121
to be 9.767 acres. Arrangements are under way for a mid-July
auction. The auction will start with the opening of sealed bids,
with option to raise bids at the opening. The county will reserve
the right to reject any and all bids. When available, details of the
sale will be in the classifieds.
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The preliminary draft of the county's new comprehensive plan is
available for review. Public hearings will be held in Atlanta,
Elkhart, Lincoln and Mount Pulaski during the month of July.
The public may view the preliminary draft of the Logan County
Comprehensive Plan online at
http://www.mcplan.org/
c_p/plans/Logan/logan.shtml.
The Logan County Greenways Plan is also now available to review
at
http://www.mcplan.org/
c_p/plans/Logan/logangreen.shtml.
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The board approved two additional 300-day contracts with McLean
County for juvenile detention. The county has already used 190 days
of the first extension. To be expedient, the second contract was
added at this time. The contract reduces the rate to $85 per person,
per day. Any leftover days would be carried over to the next
contract year, finance chair Chuck Ruben said.
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A $3,000 Main Street grant for a downtown bike trail has been
received. According to John Sutton, the grant is being used to put
in a water fountain and bicycle racks. The bike racks will be
located in Scully and Latham parks.
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The Latham Park bandstand will be getting some
patching up. Boy Scout Corey Bell has offered to lead the project,
which involves raising funds, some construction, cleaning the drain,
stucco and paint. Bell is pursuing the work as part of his Eagle
Scout project.
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 The board approved to change zoning on a Chestnut property from
B-1 to M-1. The request came from Thomas Becker and Russell
Hamilton. They are planning to start up a business at the old school
grounds east of Route 54. It involves some manufacturing not much
different from what has
 been done there in the past. There was no
opposition to the request at public hearings of either the Logan
County Regional Planning Commission meeting or the appeals board.
The county board was made aware that the B-1 zoning was incorrect
when it was first applied to the property and that this situation is
representative of the same problem that exists in a number of other
areas, particularly around older grain elevators. The planning
commission and the county board's planning and zoning committee will
be looking into this zoning designation further and doing a review
of zoning countywide in the near future. County coordinator Dewey
Colter is steering that process.
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R.L. High was awarded the bid to renovate the Logan County
Courthouse dome. High was the contractor who did the roof in the
'70s. His bid of $93,753 includes roof repairs, reglazing windows,
replacing Plexiglas, renewing stucco and fiberglass coating.
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Acceptance of the Prevailing Wage Act was approved.
[Jan
Youngquist] |
