Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
A sign for Hurley K-12 School marks the intersection of Range View Drive and 10th Avenue. The Hurley City Council granted approval on Tuesday to move forward with a road project for Range View Drive from 10th Avenue to the Hurley School District and from U.S. 51 to Range View and then west on Range View past the school to County D.
By ZACHARY MARANO
Hurley - The city of Hurley's first female mayor, Joanne Bruneau, was sworn in at the full council meeting on Tuesday. New alderpersons Joseph Pinardi and Rita Franzoi, who ran unopposed for open seats on the council left vacant by departing mayor Jay "Budgey" Aijala and Steven Lombardo, also took their oaths of office at the meeting.
After doing this, the council held a restructuring meeting where they designated their official depositories as Associated Bank and Northern Estate Bank in Ashland. They also designated the Iron County Miner as their official newspaper. They adopted Robert's Rules of Order for conducting city council meetings.
These designations were unchanged, but Bruneau said that the council had to appoint a new accessor this year. They selected the Eau Claire-based company Appraisal Services and Data Processing Systems Inc.
The council also granted Street Commissioner Scott Santini approval to move forward with the road project for Range View Drive from 10th Avenue to the Hurley School District and from U.S. 51 to Range View and then west on Range View past the school to County D.
Bruneau attended the city council's last meeting on April 12 because she was sitting on the council as an alderperson before she was elected mayor, but for the benefit of the newly elected Franzoi and Pinardi, Santini recapped some details of the project that the council discussed previously.
Santini said that the project is being partially funded through the State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Local Roads Improvement Program grant, but the city of Hurley and the town of Kimball need to provide a match.
Santini said that a portion of the match - probably two-thirds - is going to be a 50/50 split between Hurley and Kimball. The other one-third of the match will strictly come from Kimball. He said that Hurley will probably need to provide $50-55,000 for the project.
Santini also asked the council to approve the addition of large water meters for the lead service line replacement program. He said that it would be in the city's best interest to incorporate those large meters because they use the same software as their regular meters. This was approved by the council.
