Superior town council elects presidents

According to the charter of the town of Superior, the town council is required to elect one or two presidents every January and during the Jan. 14 meeting of the town council current councilors once again appointed presidents.

The current presidents of the town council, Roni Phillips and Angelo Ververis were nominated by Councilor Doug Cummings to serve the same positions for 2013, which unanimously passed.

Loren Randall, CPA, was on hand at the meeting to review an audit report for the 2011-12 fiscal year and reported the town is “in a strong financial position.”

Randall gave a recommendation that since the town has a small staff for “the ideal segregation of duties” the mayor and councilors continue to monitor the financial transactions of the town.

A motion was passed by the town council to approve advertising for bids on the town office project once a package is prepared.

This comes after the council sent a letter to CDBG with regards to moving forward with the project was sent, received and accepted.

Advertising for the bids could take place “within a couple of weeks.”

Superior Mayor Michael Wood read the December Superior Volunteer Fire Department report, which said four emergency calls and a sprinkler call were responded to by the department.    

One incident on Dec. 17 involved a fire sprinkler flowing at the Superior Commons apartments.

“Dispatch indicated there was no fire and the incident was not paged,” Mayor Wood read. “Chief John Woodland and Assistant Chief Rick Miller responded in personal vehicles. On arrival, we found a single sprinkler head flowing in a laundry alcove on the second floor and water was coming down the steps and through the ceiling of the apartment below.”

Chief Woodland and Assistant Chief Miller were able to stop the flow.

On Dec. 23, the SVFD responded to a report of a fire at the Pellet Mill after a passing Burlington Northern Train called it in. The fire turned out to be in the bark mill.

“The entire face of a pile containing mixed materials was on fire,” Mayor Wood read. “There were also three other locations with open fire showing. Two of the locations were isolated small piles that had recently been dumped by a loader.”

The report adds that it seemed as though the piles were the result of employees moving burning materials to other locations to make sure they were out.

“We extinguished the visible portion of the fire and turned the situation over to mill personnel a little after 5 am,” Mayor Wood read. “The entire east end of Diamond Road experienced a heavy layer of smoke.”  

The SVFD had three training meetings in December, during which the department had the Fire Service School burn trailer and “took advantage of its availability.”

“On Saturday, Dec. 1, firefighters practiced interior attack techniques working with live fire,” Mayor Wood read. “We used a slightly modified technique based on recent changes in understanding fire behavior.”

The Fire Service School burn trailer was used again on Dec. 4 and on Dec. 18 the SVFD covered ladder and highway operations.

The next regular meeting of the Superior Town Council will be on Feb. 11.