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Sept 7, 20 10 The Mooresville Town Council met in regular session on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 6:30 P. M. at the Mooresville Government Center. Council members present were: President Ryan Goodwin, Mark Harris, and Jeff Cook. John L. Clark and Tony Langley were absent. Attorney Tim Currens was present as was Clerk-Treasurer Sandy Perry. President Goodwin gave the invocation. A motion was made by Councilman Cook with a second by Councilman Harris to approve minutes of August 17th meeting. Motion carried 3-0. Mr. Wade will be at the second meeting in September. Luke Pauley, Beekeepers Association, appeared before the council concerning the incident with the mosquito spray. He introduced Kathleen Prough, President of Indiana Beekeeper's Assn., and Brenda Buehler from DNR. Kathleen reported that neighborhoods are getting bee hives-now and the importance of bees in our society. The beekeepers are getting bombarded with insecticides. She looked at some cities where they had stopped spraying because of the cost and are now treating the larvae. She thinks the Town should let people know when they are going to spray. Suggestions were to notify on the town website,put in the paper, and posting no spray signs. Stacy Pauley told of an incident where Stacy and Luke were called to move a swarm of bees in a resident's yard. They were about forty five minutes into the procedure when a town truck passed by spraying for mosquitoes. The bees were all killed and the people in the yard sprayed. They tried waving the driver down but he went on around the cul-de-sac and came down the street spraying again. She asked for termination of all spraying. Councilman Harris thought the town should look at posting a schedule,but Joe Beikman, Street Superintendent, said they can't spray on a schedule because of weather, wind, especially. Council President Goodwin agreed with Councilman Harris that there are things that can be done. They said they would try to come up with a different program. Joe said they normally run three sprays in October. No one was present from Taste of Mooresville. Paving bids were opened: E&B Paving $141,654.50 Dave O'Mara 110,056.00 Wallace Const. 109,138.00 A motion was made by Councilman Harris with a second by Councilman Cook to accept the Wallace Construction bid for paving. Motion carried 3-0. Joann Smith,North Indiana Street and Victor Drive, appeared before the council wanting to fill in the ditch in front of her house. The town owns one side of the ditch and the property owner owns their side. Council President Goodwin said his concern was for the flow of water. Joe Beikman said this has been looked at in the past. A tile in the ditch is going to increase water flooding. Councilman Cook reported he had been talking to the school about the ditch and could we possibly use the school's retention pond and run it back out the pond on their parking lot,the school is wanting to partnership. Joe Beikman said he has seen the retention pond back on their parking lot and he wouldn't want to take the schools capacity. Councilman Harris asked Joe if he had any suggestions. Joe Beikman answered,not as far as piping,but they have looked at widening the ditch and taking it further down the road.. The town would need to have easements for that. Joann Smith said there were a lot of mosquitoes and trash in the ditch and asked who was responsible for cleaning the ditch. She didn't know how other communities handled the situation. Attorney Currens explained each community deals with their distinct problem. He also commented the north end of town is getting increasingly more water in the past few years from Hendricks County to the north of us. He has met with the Morgan County Surveyor and our county surveyor has met with Hendricks County Surveyor, but no word yet on what has been discussed.