NAPPANEE — At Monday’s Board of Public Works and Safety meeting in Nappanee the board approved releasing a large portion of the retainage to Indiana Earth for the beleaguered water
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DENISE FEDOROW
CORRESPONDENT
Dec 15, 2020
NAPPANEE â Nappanee Board of Works members Monday renewed annual contracts for 2021 and all had some increase over the 2020 contracts.
The board approved the 2021 contract with City Attorney Brian Hoffer. The contract has a slight increase and pays $7,200 for attendance at City Council and Board of Public Works meetings, payable at $600 a month from the general fund and the wastewater treatment plant/board of works fund. The hourly rate was increased $5 to $150 an hour.
Also approved was the contract with Jeff Kitson, doing business as Kitson Development Corp. as executive director of the Chamber of Commerce and the Redevelopment Commission. The contract spells out Kitsonâs duties and is for $104,260, payable bi-weekly in installments of 26 pay periods of $4,010.19. Kitson is responsible for paying his employeeâs pay and benefits from that amount.