WILSON — An update on the city burn pile was given at Monday’s meeting of the Wilson City Council.

Mayor Mike Peschka said the city now has a signed copy of the contract with the county.

He said the terms include the city deeding the property of its current burn pile to the county. In return, the county will pay for a survey of the new burn pit, which is also south of town. The county will also pay for materials and the installation of a three-wire barbed wire fence around the new burn pit and construct a 24-feet-wide access road that will extend 200 feet into the burn pit location. The county will plug or pay to have plugged the existing water well at the burn pit location and remove or pay to have removed the existing well house on the property and construct a 15-feet-wide access entrance road so the adjacent property owner can access his property.

“They (the county) are ready to move forward with this,” Peschka said.

The council then approved Peschka signing the contract on behalf of the city as well as the quit-claim deed transferring the old burn pile property to Ellsworth County.

In other business:

• After a five-minute executive session to discuss non-elected personnel (the Wilson Police Chief position), no action was taken other than to note the candidate interested in the job declined the city’s offer.

• The purchase of 10 pallets of material from Circle C Paving to crack seal streets in Wilson at a cost of $4,200 per pallet ($42,000 total) was approved. The work will be done this coming December/January.

• Approval was given to pay $788.81 for testing of the compressor at the Wilson Fire Department.

• Purchasing authority of up to $18,000 was approved to the Wilson Fire Department for a tanker truck, with the city council having final approval.

Council president Dan Taylor said the city’s auditor has approved this purchase.

• Approval was given to pay Jennifer Keller, city compliance officer, $30 this month and not the normal $150 per month because she did not have that many hours this month. The council also approved paying Keller $15 per hour going forward with a maximum of 10 hours per month.

• Approval was given to reimburse $22,470 to Kansas Sand and Construction for work done in conjunction with the Kansas Department of Commerce Housing grant, as well as $19,720 to KDOC. The city will also pay $42,200 to Western Sales Company as soon as those funds are available from the state. Approval was also given to extend the length of the grant to April 28.

• Approval was given to offer candidates applying for the parttime assistant city clerk’s job $10 per hour.

The next meeting of the Wilson City Council will be at 6 p.m. Monday, March 20, at city hall.