Members of the Sutton City Council took on a short list of action items during its June meeting Monday night, June 10.
Several items related to payments for services related to the Schwab Ground housing development and Hickory Street improvements, along the north side of the development included:
• A payment of $4,480 for professional services related to construction administration and JEO Consulting Group’s project representation of the Hickory Street project was approved;
• Additionally, a second payment for the administration and representation of the Schwab Ground was approved in the amount of $27,145;
• Council members approved a payment of $644,890.72 to JEO Consulting for production work that had taken place inside the Schwab Ground development, bringing the total payments to JEO Consulting to date on the development to $4,138,722.99;
• A payment of $1,020, and another for $1,444 were approved for payment to Mid-States Engineering for construction testing services.
TRANSFER OF SERVICES BY SUPERIOR INET
Council approved a joint request made by Superior iNET and Glenwood Telecommunications to transfer all internet services and operations from Superior iNET to Glenwood Telecommunications.
Customers of the Edgar- based Superior iNET began receiving a joint letter from the two telecommunications operations that on, or around July 8, 2024, Glenwood Telecommunications will, at that time, “officially assume ownership of Superior iNET fiber internet infrastructures, and the customers utilizing their services.”
Glenwood Telecommunications is home-based out of Blue Hill, and according to the joint letter, serves over 5,000 internet customers across nearly 40 communities.
Council members discussed with Steve Parr of JEO Consulting, who serves as the City of Sutton’s streets superintendent, the future of the One and Six Year Road plans. While no action was taken by council members, according to Parr, council members needed to indicate to him in the coming months what the new plan would include in order to continue to receive highway allocation funds from the State of Nebraska.
Council members officially approved the sale of two lots in the Grosshans Addition in Sutton to Brandon Kreutzer for $1,000.
Matt Kliewer, owner of Cedar Hill Construction, LLC in rural Hamilton County, was awarded bids by the city council to repair and re-shingle several buildings owned by the City of Sutton, following repeated hail and wind damages.
The properties of which Kliewer and his crew will work on, following the spring and summer severe weather season in 2024 include:
• City Hall at an estimated cost of over $23,000;
• The DLD Park concession stand building at an estimated cost of over $3,500;
• The old State of Nebraska Dept. of Roads building, which is now owned by the city on Ash Street, also known locally as “the DLD.” That project was estimated to cost the city nearly $7,500;
• The Sutton City Library building, at an estimated cost of nearly $16,500; and
• The City Park pavilion at an estimated cost of just over $16,000.
Kliewer’s firm was awarded the bid over two other operations that submitted bids, including Triple R Seamless Gutters of Sutton, and Leach Roofing, LLC of Lincoln.
Action closing out the meeting Monday night was related to the future ownership and renovation of the Mike Ford building, which was damaged by an extensive fire in October 2014, and again in the July 29, 2023 EF-1 tornado that damaged a large area of Sutton’s downtown business district.
Exact details of the action weren’t exactly clear, related to the building at 127 N. Saunders Ave., but plans to move forward with renovations with the Red Cloud-based firm Al’s Old House Repair, LLC appears to be the plan moving forward, after the city’s legal firm works out details discussed during Monday night’s meeting.
