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The Shelbina City Council heard several people voice their opposition to the idea of a bar opening in their neighborhood during Tuesday night’s regular council meeting at the Shelbina City Hall.
   Opposition to a Bar
   Bonnie Tarbet and Veronica Roush spoke to the council about their concern of a bar opening at the old Silver Steer building. They said with the number of kids and grandkids in their neighborhood, they did not think a bar would be a good thing to have in the area.
   Shelbina City Administrator Dennis Klusmeyer said the Silver Steer zoned commercial as long as it was in use. After it went out of business, it reverted back to being zoned residential.
   Roy Lee Dawkins said they have been holding church services near the old Silver Steer building as well and that he opposed any kind of bar going in to that building.
   Pool Contract
   Klusmeyer asked for the council to pass a motion to officially hire Westport Pool as the contractor on the City’s new swimming pool. Council member Sonia Schaeffer said she wanted to see a copy of the contract, which stated what all would be included in the project with the money that is being spent.
   Klusmeyer showed her a drawing of the pool and an a price list of components of the plan of the pool. She wanted this to be officially included in the contract. After a long discussion, the council passed a motion to hire Westport Pool as the contractor, pending a detailed list that Schaeffer and Mayor John Smith will review sometime today (Wednesday).
   Uniform Crime Reports
   Shelbina Police Chief Jenni Rash sent a letter to the meeting saying the Uniform Crime Reports were up to date as of June of 2009. The department had been behind on these reports with the State. The Council recently put officer Sean Baymiller in charge of the reports, to make sure they get completed.
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School started last Thursday for the Shelby County R-IV School District. Students and teachers are getting back into full swing as many of the school activities get underway this week.

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The Shelbina Pool Committee is still meeting on a weekly basis and making progress on plans for the new facility.
   The pool will consist of a lazy river on the west side, a climbing wall on the north side, which will be in seven foot water. The east side will have a volleyball net and basketball goals on the side. It will also have a double flume slide with one curved flume and one straight flume, according to Shelbina City Administrator Dennis Klusmeyer.
   The south end of the pool will have a zero-entry into the water.
   The shower house will be located on the west side of the pool, just west of the lazy river.
   For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.   1743 0934 8/26/2009 hdl

Shelby County Economic Development Director Robert Harrington calls it a hidden tax. Voters in Macon County passed a landfill tax that will impose a fee of $1.50 per ton for all trash services who use the landfill located in Macon County.
   Currently the City of Shelbina has its trash service with Community Trash Service (CTS). CTS dumps its trash in a landfill near LaGrange in Lewis County. Although they have a similar tax that has been in place for years. There is not a large amount of money that is going toward economic development in that area. But Shelbyville and Clarence use Veolia, who currently dumps in the landfill in Macon County. Harrington anticipates that the tax imposed on Veolia will eventually have to be passed down to the cities it picks up for. That’s where Shelby County money will be going to fund economic development in Macon County.
   For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.   1744 0934 8/26/2009 hdl

A Health Fair was held at Salt River Community Care on Friday. Pictured above is an assortment of fruits, bottled water and other healthy snacks that were given away to those who attended the events of the day.

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