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Retiring city administrator to receive consultant contract
Published by arollins on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 5:00am
The Warrenton Board of Aldermen has approved a $24,000 contract with retiring City Administrator Terri Thorn to retain her as a consultant for an additional year.
Thorn is slated to retire on the first day of April this year. On the second day of April, Thorn would become a consultant, to be paid $2,000 per month. The cost to the city is a flat fee, for which Thorn would provide "up to 30 hours of services a month," according to the agreement approved by aldermen.
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Warrenton gets clean audit for 2020
Published by arollins on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 5:00am
The city of Warrenton received a clean review on a professional audit of its financial accounts for fiscal year 2019-2020.
The audit was performed by accounting firm Botz, Deal & Co. for the year ending in June 2020. The firm has conducted Warrenton's audits for a number of years.
"(Warrenton's) records are always in really great shape," complimented auditor Allen Schulte during a Dec. 15 board of aldermen meeting. He said all of the city's records are kept in accordance with accepted financial practices.
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Warrenton approves annexation for future development on Sunnyside
The Warrenton Board of Aldermen agreed in December to annex 49 acres where a local developer has plans for a potential residential subdivision. The property is adjacent to 12 acres on Sunnyside Road that was the center of much controversy in September.
Aldermen voted 6-0 on Dec. 15 to annex the 49-acre the property, which includes a chunk of the Country Lake Golf Course and adjacent ground. It was the last piece of the golf course outside city limits, after Warrenton agreed to annex the rest of the golf course in 2018.
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Warrenton will finish sewer lines with $5.5M bond issue
The end is in sight for a lengthy project to upgrade Warrenton's network of sewer pipes, but one substantial and costly step remains.
City Administrator Terri Thorn discussed the project during a Dec. 15 board of aldermen meeting. She said construction crews have finished building a new sewer main on the west side of the city from south of Interstate 70, north to a lift station at Fairlane Circle. Now, the city just needs to connect that new main to the wastewater treatment plant to the northeast, across Highway 47.
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Warrenton green lights new storage facility
Published by arollins on Sat, 12/26/2020 - 5:00am
The city of Warrenton will soon be home to an additional storage facility, oriented toward serving the needs of local small businesses.
Warrenton's Board of Aldermen on Dec. 15 unanimously approved a series of applications from Best Box Storage to establish a facility on Highway AA, just north of the North Service Road intersection. Approvals included a conditional use permit and site plan for the business, along rezoning a portion of land from industrial to commercial use.
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Warrenton resident requests street signs for child safety
A Warrenton resident is petitioning the city government to place street signs in his neighborhood to protect children from speeding drivers.
Resident Jeff Polys, who lives near the intersection of Banner and McKinley, said children in his neighborhood are endangered by drivers coming off the main road. Polys' neighborhood is directly east of Highway 47 and north of the railroad track.
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Developer has plans for more land near Sunnyside Road
The owners of 12 acres at the center of much controversy along Sunnyside Road are asking the city of Warrenton to annex another 49 acres into the city, with plans for future development.
Warrenton's Board of Aldermen on Dec. 1 heard the petition from Keeven Family Partnership to annex a cluster of properties directly east of the 12 acres that are already planned for residential development. Nearby neighbors on Sunnyside Road unsuccessfully tried to block development of the smaller site in September.
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Warrenton approves added $24K for sidewalk engineers
Published by arollins on Mon, 12/07/2020 - 7:21am
The city of Warrenton has approved an additional payment of $24,900 to Crawford, Murphy & Tilly (CMT), the engineering firm for construction of sidewalks along North Highway 47.
The change will raise the maximum amount CMT can be paid to as much as $455,000, according to an amended agreement with the firm. The additional payment is for extra work engineers had to do for final plan revisions that accommodate property owner requests and avoid challenges with existing utilities.
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Warrenton makes some building permits easier to get
Published by arollins on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 5:00am
The city of Warrenton is easing the process by which building owners can get approval for changes to the exterior of their buildings.
City aldermen last week approved a change to have minor exterior remodeling pass through an expedited site plan approval at city hall. Previously, most changes involving the exterior of a building had to go through multiple rounds of planning and zoning hearings before receiving approval from the board of alderman.
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New internet provider moving to Warrenton, promises high speeds
A new internet service provider based in Jonesburg plans to bring its high-speed fiber optic network to Warrenton.
Representatives of Gateway Fiber, a company founded in 2019, unveiled plans for their expansion into Warrenton during a Nov. 17 meeting with the city's board of aldermen.
"We're still in our growth stage, and we're eyeing additional markets for expansion," said John Meyer with Gateway Fiber. "We consider Warrenton a very attractive place to bring fiber broadband."
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