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KIRKSVILLE, MO. -- The city of Kirksville held a special meeting Monday to place a bond issue on the April ballot.
    
The Adair County commissioners agreed to grant recovery zone bonds to the city to improve the storm water system.
    
$50,000 is budgeted each year for storm water repairs.

“That is not enough to address the magnitude of the issues that we have out there.  What we want to begin focusing on is not the storm water that's in the streets that we've been taking care of for years the storm water that goes across people's properties,” said Kirksville City Manager Mari Macomber, “They (the voters) have an opportunity to decide whether or not storm water is something that they think is important to pursue and whether, and if they support that then whether or not they support paying additional fees for that.”
    
Macomber says citizens will pay about $2.25 more on their monthly utility bills.
   
The city will repay the bonds over a 20 year period and the state will pay a large part of the interest.

Macomber says they want citizens to let them know where the storm water is a problem.  She says you can call city hall at 660-627-1224 if you have information that might help officials address the critical issues.
    
The city also met with Veolia last week to discuss the new trash contract.

The city wanted to know how much Veolia would charge if citizens could request a 32 gallon cart rather than the 65 gallon trash can.  Veolia says the cost would be 20 cents more for all citizens.  Senior citizens would still get a discount but not as low as the first quote.  City council members said they didn’t want to charge senior citizens more just so all residents could have the choice between the two trash bins.

Veolia also gave the city another choice.  The other option is to offer the 65 gallon cart to everyone at the same cost and senior citizens will get a discount. The discount to seniors would be the same cost ($8.67) that was originally stated in the first draft of the contract.

The city will meet with Veolia at least once more to finalize the cost and terms for trash service.