Henderson Town
Council has final meeting of fiscal year
Henderson - It was an active, but short, session as the Town of Henderson met for its June meeting, the final one before the start of the new fiscal year in July.
There were several motions and resolutions and even an executive session in the roughly 30 minute meeting.
The executive session allowed city attorney Jerry Mallet to inform the council of a pending action with MPERS, the police employees retire - ment system.
The session lasted about 15 minutes and the meeting adjourned shortly after.
In other business, the council passed a resolution to allow Mayor Sherbin Collette to swap police vehicles with the Town of Duson.
Henderson
Henderson will receive a 2019 Ford F-150 police interceptor in exchange for a Dodge patrol car. The value of both vehicles is $15,000.
The council also voted to accpept a bid of $102,950 from Vice Metal Work, LLC, for the construction of a new building for storage of city equipment.
The council also voted to accept a bid of $2,000 from Herman Alexander to replace the canopy at city hall and replacement of mailboxes as well.
“We got a grant of $15,0000 for that so we are well within the amount of the grant” Collette said.
“So if anyone can think of a canopy we can replace with the additional grant money, please let me know”.
The council then voted to allow Maraist & Maraist to handle payroll services for the town.
Police Chief Troy Dupuis told the council that Breckin Millet, who was hired as a police office in May, resigned.He asked the council to accept the resignation so he can start the process of hiring a new officer.
Mayor Collette also addressed the issue of people from outside of Henderson using the town dumpster so that it is constantly filled up with trash spilling on the ground near the dumpster.
The mayor said that he has put up new cameras to catch the illegal dumping and when he can identify the perpetrators through license plate numbers he will fine them the maximum allowed by law, $500.
“There is no reason for the people of Henderson to pay the cost for constantly emptying the dumpster used by people from outside the area,” Collette said.
