Members of the Sutton City Council, during its regular session meeting, Monday, May 13, addressed an unsafe downtown Sutton building, located at 217 N. Saunders Ave. Deeming the property as an unsafe property with emergency implications, and with the passage of resolution 2024-2, the City of Sutton will be moving forward with a situation that states in the resolution that the property “poses an immediate danger to the health, safety, or general welfare of any person, or persons.”
City officials will serve a written notice of the emergency situation that will give the current property owner, Mike Ford, until May 31 to address the dismay of the property, at which time the city’s CRA will then purchase the property, make the necessary repairs, and potentially sell the property, without liens, that are currently set against the property, making the property impractical to sell privately.
Council members approved the resolution unanimously.
The council approved a $2,750 donation to the Sutton Volunteer Fire Department for the use of the 2024 Fourth of July fireworks display.
Additionally, members of the SVFD talked with the council about the possibility of the future of the fireworks display being sponsored by a different organization in the coming years.
Council members approved a pay app to JEO Consulting for the continued work at the Schwab Housing Development in the amount of $877,210.55. To date, payments made for the development have reached $3,677,718.18.
