BY KIM LUTTRELL
DANVILLE — The city council will be asked to approve Mayor Scott Eisenhauer’s appointment of Donald McLaughlin to the Danville Housing Authority Tuesday night.
McLaughlin would replace Celestine Crockett, whose term expired September 2008. Crockett had served on the housing authority board since 2000.
Some aldermen have questioned Eisenhauer’s reason for not reappointing Crockett to the board, citing her longevity and experience on the housing authority board.
The council also will vote on a revised plan to increase yard waste fees and to curtail yard waste pickup.
Under the proposed plan, yard waste would be collected weekly for four weeks beginning in mid-March and then revert to a bi-weekly collection schedule until mid-October when collections again would be weekly for a period of eight weeks.
The plan calls for all yard waste to be in toters during the bi-weekly pickups, but yard waste paper bags would be collected during the weekly yard waste collection cycles.
The permit for a toter to be used for yard waste will increase from $10 to $20 a year. Mulch and compost would increase to $25 per cubic yard.
Also on Tuesday night, the council:
-- Will vote on a special use permit for Darlene Dastous to place a manufactured home on property at 21744 Denmark Road.
The Danville Area Planning and Zoning Commission has recommended the special use permit be denied. The commission felt that the manufactured home would not be in “substantial harmony” with the area and would adversely impact the living conditions in the vicinity.
-- Will consider the donation of two high efficiency forced-air furnaces, salvaged from the old city hall building at 400 N. Hazel St., to Your Family Resource Connection for use in its Hazel Street building.
-- Will consider the purchase of a five-deck mower for Harrison Park Golf Course. The mower, to be purchased from ERB Turf Equipment of Belleville, will cost $39,900 and will be financed with a four-year loan to be repaid by proceeds from the golf course.
-- Will consider the purchase of two tracts of land near the corner of Griffin and Vine streets. The two tracts are needed to relocate a sanitary sewer main that is suspended from the Griffin Street bridge over Stony Creek.
-- Will vote on authorizing Motor Fuel Tax funds to be used on the Voorhees Street improvement project and for resurfacing a portion of Jackson Street.
WHAT’S NEXT
The Danville City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Robert E. Jones Municipal Building, 17 W. Main St.
