Litchfield City Council Meeting
The Litchfield City Council has approved of a bid of $6,053,700 for 3 transformers from WEG Transformers USA of Washington, Missouri. It could take up to three years to receive the transformers and the city will issue debt to help with the purchase of the transformers.
The Litchfield City Council heard an annual report last night from the president of the Litchfield Visitors Bureau – Rick Beecroft. He spoke about the statewide and local campaigns to promote Litchfield and the two big events of the year – the Parade of Bands and Light Up Litchfield. The Council accepted his report.
The Council also had a visit from Head Librarian Beth Cronk regarding funding for 2026. The Library was seeking a 5% increase in its funding from the City and Cronk said without the increase, they would have to dip into the Library reserve funds. The Council approved of funding at the 2025 level of $173,496, rather than the requested amount of $182,171.
The Council approved of a resolution selecting 4594 Design for $18,850, contingent upon execution of a grant agreement, for work at the G.A.R. Hall. A motion was approved on a 4-to-2 vote – with Darlene Kotelnicki and Bob Powers opposed – to renew tobacco licenses for several businesses, contingent upon completion of their paperwork. If their paperwork is not completed by the January 1st deadline, their licenses will expire. Kotelnicki also asked that there be a future work session to discuss the amounts of money that the City spends for contracted services.
Also last night, Council Member Bob Powers brought up the issue of winter parking as he’s noticed cars parked along streets after snowfalls which the plows have to drive around, and they have no tickets on their windshields, and then the plows have to return later to clean the streets again when the cars have moved. He says the ordinance should change to ban parking on the streets during winter months. Rather than changing the ordinance, the Council agreed to make efforts to educate the public about not parking on streets when there are snow events, and to issue tickets for first-time offenders and to tow the vehicles of repeat offenders.
