Police:
• Met with Motorola about software applications for new radios
• Attended Mandatory City Training at Knight Museum
• Completed BLS CPR renewal
• Completed several news releases and fielded several media inquiries • Chief will be one of the judges for “Beauty For A Cause” at Autumn in Alliance benefitting Down Syndrome
Accounting and Finance:
• Attended Retirement Committee Meeting
• Attended All-Staff Training
• Attended Council Meeting
• Attended Insurance renewal meeting
• Finalized Budget State Budget form
Utility Billing Services:
• Cycle 3 and cycle 4 bills mailed
• Cycle 1 and cycle 2 reminder notices mailed
• Seven new residential accounts
Water/Sewer:
• 10 locates performed; 12 work orders completed
• 1,00 feet of sewer line jetted
• Installed 13 radios
• Attended all employee training
• Assisted warehouse with inventory
• Repaired and installed new hoses on chlorine pump #1 at Chlorine Plant • Assisted customer with backflow device
• Cleaned out wash rack pits
• Worked on and tested Wells 1 and 4
• Graded Sewer Lake Road
Streets:
• 10 locates performed
• Mowed around animal shelter
• Patched potholes
• Attended all employee training
• Graded 8th St, E 9th St, Elkhorn, Bod, Howard, and 2nd St
• Swept streets
• Hauled rock to Sewer Lake
• Completed mowing and unhooked mower from tractor
Landfill:
• 175 customers; 211.49 tons of refuse collected
• Performed baler maintenance
• Cleaned tipping floor
• Received new baler valve
• Performed equipment maintenance
• Cleaned roads with Bobcat
• Pulled weeds by Bay 3
• Attended all employee meeting
• Filled holes by south gate
Airport:
• Denver Air Connection has added additional flights to our current schedule for October. The additional flights are on Tuesday and Wednesday of each week. The times can be seen on their website at denverairconnection.com.
• Congratulations to Denver Air Connection for being the Spotlight Business of the month for the Chamber!
• Received clearance letter from FAA on the annual inspection conducted back in May.
• Final draft of the Title VI plan for the airport is being submitted to the FAA Civil Rights division for approval. There are a number of things that we will start right away and the final steps must wait for approval from FAA and City Council.
• Conducted a documents review of all the building leases and will work on the land leases next week.
• Participated in the Prairie Dog Advisory Board meeting. Prairie dogs are still a priority for airport staff with ongoing control efforts.
• Participated in a phone call regarding upcoming training for emergency/security plan.
• All staff participated in mandatory training for the City.
• Maintenance staff repaired doors on the maintenance shop and the ARFF station.
• Completed mowing of Runway 8/26, Runway 17/35, ditch to the pump, and the ILS and Localizer areas.
• Repair fence in East pasture.
• Winter prep on the small plow along with cleaning of the loader completed. • Weekly inspections of the perimeter fence, ARFF trucks, and MALSR done. Museum:
• Hosted two all employee trainings for City of Alliance staff in the gallery • This week there was a significant uptick in travelers visiting the museum • KCOW used the Theater to host a regional meeting
• Hosted a workshop for the Box Butte County Art Society
• Collected information and some artifacts for the 1975 Alliance High School class reunion • Had the first planning meeting for the Annual Christmas Festival here at the Museum Parks:
• Started fall application of fertilizer.
• Repaired the Walker mower.
• Mowed park areas. Picked up grass clippings at the ball parks and other needed areas. • Sprayed weeds at Bower Park.
• Planted the last tree from the Nebraska Forrest Service.
• Mowed, trimmed, and picked up clippings at Central Park for Autumn in Alliance. • Moved picnic tables and roll out dumpsters for Autumn in Alliance.
RSVP & Senior Center:
• Events hosted at the Senior Center this week included Yoga, card parties, bingo, and coffee & Treats.
• RSVP had fifteen volunteers in the community this week.
• Continued providing dine in and delivery meals for area seniors
Golf:
• Prepared for the Floggers cross country tournament this weekend
• Hosted the AHS Girls invite on Monday
• Mowed the course as necessary
Library:
• Halloween is arriving! This year we have added a party of ghosts around a fire to welcome our visitors. Be sure to bring the kids up to see all we have going on. We are finding that many adults just like to come in and enjoy the atmosphere here in the library, with is what I think is our biggest compliment. We are happy this facility is an extension of our patron’s living rooms, and are glad they feel welcome here. It makes all the decorating worthwhile.
• Children’s Librarian Cynthia Horn’s Story Time featured Berenstain Bears and creating Bears’ Tree House with recycled materials. Cynthia shared library announcements on KCOW Radio. Autumn in Alliance Coloring Contest entries are on display in the library with everyone invited to vote for their favorite in each age division. Digital Detox Friday featured Recycled Crafts with Keep Alliance Beautiful. Cynthia also added a new Wiggleworm feature of Rainy Day Reads and is working on new displays and preparing materials for Book Mobile. Her ongoing projects include cataloging new items, final preparations for October programs and backpack maintenance. The new Bluey and Halloween backpacks are very popular!
• Adult Services Librarian Stephanie Hamilton notes that it has been a busy time for patrons at the library this past week and a fun filled month of September! This week concluded with a community event Sept. 25, an evening with Jacyln Wilson and her presentation, “Cattle, Conservation and Community. Jaclyn came to tell of her experiences from Lakeside’s Flying Diamond Cattle ranch sharing stories of her 5th generation ranch as well as methods in marketing, cattle management and land conservation. We are thrilled Jacylyn accepted our invitation to present and excited for continued quality programs in the future that you can look forward to. As the month of September comes to a close, we are concluding several Adult Services programs, including our Uber Reads Take out. Patrons have been choosing a takeout bag to check out and returning the attached receipt for entry in a drawing at the conclusion of the program. The winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to Wonderful Kitchen. Each selection from the display has a recipe card to keep, unique to a food item referenced in the book. There is still time to get your Uber Reads entry in before Sept. 30, so be sure to come in and discover an Uber Read just right for you. We also have an upcoming drawing at here at the library, at the end of this month, for all patrons who registered for a library card in September. Those individuals will be included in a drawing for a prize from the APL Foundation with a $25 gift certificate to the bookstore! Steph also submitted website updates and new posts, maintained displays, shelf read, facilitated book club discussion, finalized arrangements for community speaker and performed tasks for future outreach activities.
• Technical Services Librarian Mason Trumble has been very busy preparing all the promotional materials for the upcoming fall programs. He is researching some ideas on hosting sessions for young people to create their own graphic novel, and is also delivering book mobile items to the area preschools and daycare facilities.
• Library Clerks Pam Becker and Carolyn Hamel have finally completed the 1,400 Trunk or Treat items for the librarians to hand out on Halloween. Pam also prepared the prizes for the annual “Gertie the Ghost” search, which will run October 1-30. These two have also been very busy adding new accounts to the system and processing all the new titles that are tolling in.
Administration:
• Follow up on completing the budget after its adoption last week and providing additional information to Council
• Year-end bill pay Council Meeting
• Attended Retirement Committee Meeting
• Attended all-employee training
• Attended meeting on health insurance renewal
• Met with multiple department heads, council members and citizens