By Frank Phillips
DLC Media News
Brazil- Penalties for violations of the Brazil noise ordinance may be increased.
The city’s attorney, Traci Orman, asked the city council Wednesday to consider increasing the penalties people would have to pay for violating the noise ordinance.
She said she has checked noise ordinances in other cities and Brazil’s “is lacking” in the amount of fines.
In other business come before the council:
+Progress is being made on the splash pad to be built at Forest Park near the swimming pool.
Five companies picked up construction packets.
Bids are to be opened on Feb. 22.
The next meeting of the City Council is scheduled at 5 p.m.. March 8, in Brazil City Hall.
+Mike McClellan was reappointed to the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals.
+The council voted unanimously to decrease the hourly pay for parttime golf course employees. The city had increased the hourly rate for city employees to $16 per hour.
At the request of the golf board, the part time golf course employees will receive $10 to $16 per hour at the discretion of the board.
Councilman Shane Litz, who is also on the golf board, said the request was made to give golf course supervisors more flexibility in pay.
+A residence north of Nellys Lane on Murphy Avenue was rezoned from R1 to R2 to allow a second residence to be built on the property. There is a nearby lot that is also zoned R2, Mayor Brian Wyndham said.
In council comments:
+Brad Deal said he is impressed with progress on the new City Garage and is glad to see the new Dominos Restaurant building looking good.
+Steve Bell said the one-year anniversary of the visit of the Ambassador from Brazil is coming soon. Bell would like to present a “nice, framed picture of the fountain” that was donated to the city in the 1950s to the Brazil Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Bell also expressed a desire to see the City do more to encourage all building owners to improve the appearance of their structures.
Mayor Wyndham said efforts are being made behind the scenes to do that.
+Karen Boes said a resident expressed his praise that the city is improving more quickly than he, a long-time resident, has ever seen.
Councilman Litz said, “People don’t understand there is only so much the city can do from a governmental standpoint.”
Mayor Wyndham said, “I think that (new) urban designation can be spinned into something positive.”
He said several cities lost their urban designation in the last census but Brazil’s designation increased from Rural to Urban.
“There’s a movement going on in Brazil,” the mayor said. “You can feel it. If you can’t, you need to get your pulse checked.”