Slow down! City begins patching up potholes

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HURON — As the spring snow melt continues, residents are being urged to drain their basement sump pumps to the street rather than the sanitary sewer in order to relieve the pressure on an overloaded system.
Commissioner Doug Kludt issued the reminder at Monday’s meeting.
Also, motorists are being encouraged to slow down so they can navigate the many potholes that have emerged with the spring thaw. Commissioner Mark Robish said the city has begun patching them.
Meanwhile, commissioners approved a plat filed by Greater Huron Development Corporation to convert larger-acre lots in the Horizon Industrial Park in west Huron into five-acre parcels.
GHDC President and Chief Executive Officer David McGirr said the land was originally going to be developed with larger lots, but the demand is for smaller ones.
One of the lots is 4.4 acres and GHDC is working with the owner of the Haskell lots to acquire that land for full road frontage.
The land is located east of Lankota and north of Dakota Provisions West.
The new GHDC speculative building is located on one of the lots.

Commissioners also approved a resolution to vacate all of Van Hall Drive, an undeveloped cul-de-sac north of 24th Street Southwest, and to dedicate an alley.
The requests were made by Todd and Dawn Meyers, the Church of the Nazarene and Clifton and Beverly Katz so that all of the lots have alley access to their back yards.
There is no plan for now to build the alley.
The only evidence today of the Van Hall Drive cul-de-sac is a curb cut on 24th Street Southwest.
In separate motions, the commission approved re-plats to provide alley access.
If the adjacent landowners at some point want to develop a gravel alley, it will be up to them to pay for it following city specifications. The city would then maintain it.
In other action, Kludt announced that the residential garbage and recycling routes will be collected beginning at 6 a.m. through Friday.
That’s due to trucks being able to get through the alleys while the ground is still hard enough to drive on. Containers are to be placed at their collection points the night before as the trucks will not be rerouted.
Commissioners also:
• Appointed Wendy Bragg, Joshua Carr and Angel Wilhelm to the Green Energy Task Force, and changed Laurie Shelton’s status from member to liaison.
• Set April 1 as the public hearing date to consider transferring a 2019 retail on-sale liquor license from Tailgate LLC, 455 Dakota Ave. S., to JAB Enterprises LLC, 256 Wisconsin Ave. S.W.
• Approved the new position and job description for the Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator for the Sewer Department and posted for the position, which is approved in the budget for 2019.
• Approved the hiring of Erick Gonzalez for a sewer maintenance uncertified position.
• Accepted the resignation of Ashley Doty as a 911 telecommunicator.
• Approved the hiring of Walter Wagemann Jr. for a solid waste maintenance position.