City of McCook

McCOOK, Neb. — A grant that will help with costs for repairing Ravenswood Road is being reviewed by city staff. Some of the aspects in a $137,000 grant from the Nebraska Department of Transportation are being re-evaluated, said McCook City Manager Nate Schneider at the regular meeting of the McCook City Council Monday night...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Economic Development Corp. will pause its facade grant program in the near future to focus on other projects. After the final three facade projects are completed, the MEDC will turn to workforce improvement, said MEDC director, Andy Long at the public hearing Monday night for a report by the Economic Development Plan Citizen’s Advisory Review Committee meeting in January. Long did not elaborate on what the workforce improvement would entail...

McCOOK, Neb. — Six city street projects are slated to begin this year, with the McCook City Council adding another for good measure. Street Superintendent Greg Wolford, with McCook Public Works Director Kyle Potthoff, outlined for the McCook City Council Monday night the upcoming street improvements in the one and six-year plans. Total costs of the projects this year come to $1.20 million...

McCOOK, Neb. — A McCook City Councilman is concerned about applications for liquor licenses not including security measures. Councilman Jerry Calvin pulled from the consent agenda two applications for liquor licenses that were up for approval, one for the McCook Chamber of Commerce for a college rodeo at the Red Willow County Fairgrounds and another for Citta Deli’s anniversary party at their parking lot...

McCOOK, Neb. — Six public hearings are slated Monday night at the regular McCook City Council meeting and later, a discussion of prohibiting “jake brakes” within city limits, 6:30 p.m. at the city council chambers in the McCook Municipal Building. From the regular agenda, the council will also hear an update on the Ravenswood project, be asked to approve on its second reading an ordinance vacating the platted East G Street and dividing the property between adjacent property owners and on its first reading, an ordinance that terminates an easement with Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad.. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Planning Commission will conduct public hearings regarding subdivisions, voluntary annexation and a zoning change, at its meeting Monday, Feb. 11, 5:15 p.m. at the City Council Chambers at the McCook Municipal Building. After the hearings, the McCook Planning Commission will be asked to approve the requests...

McCOOK, Neb. — Compared to a year ago, a 45.24 percent difference was seen in the number of passengers deplaning Boutique Air at McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport A total of 126 passengers flew into the McCook airport from Denver in January, compared to 222 passengers in 2018...

McCOOK, Neb. — City department expenses came in under an audit’s recommended amount, lowering the overall cost for McCook citizens. And McCook homeowners on average paid less in property taxes in per capita costs. Those were some of the findings presented by Terry Galloway of Almquist, Maltzahn, Galloway, & Luth, in a presentation he gave of the city’s financial statements at the regular McCook City Council meeting Monday night...

McCOOK, Neb. — A McCook citizen made her concerns known about an eyesore west of McCook that seems to be growing. Bethine Vontz told the McCook City Council at its regular meeting Monday night that Old Highway 6, where it joins U.S. Highways 6 and 34, is being used as a dump, littered with abandoned furniture and other debris. She asked what if the city, or county, is doing anything to address it...

McCOOK, Neb. — Fumes from a gasoline-powered generator started a fire that caused more than $50,000 damage to a house and contents Monday evening, according to an investigation by the McCook Fire Department. According to a release: at approximately 5:44 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, the City of McCook Fire Department responded to a reported fire at 811 East 2nd Street...

McCOOK, Neb. — How to resolve property ownership on a piece of land on East 11th would have made a great test question for a first-year law student, said the McCook City Manager Monday night. In fact, it took research in Lincoln, done by a research assistant on state law back to 1881, that finally resolved the property dispute, said McCook City Manager Nate Schneider at the regular McCook City Council meeting...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport was awarded the “Part 139 Airport of the Year” at the recent Nebraska Aviation Symposium in Kearney, Neb. The award and sign were presented to the McCook City Council Monday night. The sign will be posted at the McCook airport...

McCOOK, Neb. — Construction in the City of McCook started off with a bang in January, with total estimated construction/plumbing costs at $17.77 million. Total permit fees to the city for construction came to $18,704 according to the City of McCook permit record for January...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook City Council will be asked to approve an ordinance that splits a piece of city property between two landowners, at its regular meeting Monday, 6:30 p.m., at council chambers at the City Municipal building. The strip of land is on East 11th directly south of H Street, the location of platted but never developed East G Street. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Boutique Air, the Essential Air Service (EAS) provider at the McCook Airport, is opening a maintenance area in Chadron, Neb. It’s one of a number of new steps the airline has been implementing recently, said McCook Public Works director, Kyle Potthoff...

McCOOK, Neb. — Two financing agreements with MNB Bank will help the city purchase new equipment. The McCook City Council Monday night approved two loan agreements at the rate of 4.5 percent each for the financing of a street sweeper for the street department and an ambulance for the fire department...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook City Council unanimously approved a $50,000 loan from the McCook LB840 McCook Economic Development Plan, toward the purchase of an existing laundromat in McCook. Because real estate is involved, council approval was needed for a loan already approved and reviewed by the McCook LB840 McCook Economic Development Plan loan committee, for Scott Repass and Margaret Repass. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — The state pays the City of McCook $16,789 annually for maintaining highways inside city limits. As a consent agenda item, the McCook City Council Monday night approved the renewal of Maintenance Agreement No. 17 between the Nebraska Department of Transportation and the Municipality of McCook...

McCOOK, Neb — The sewer department of the City of McCook needs a new camera. Bid specifications for a new camera that inspects sewer mains were approved by the McCook City Council Monday night, along with other consent agenda items. The camera is used to assess mains and collects information from service taps, low areas in the main, cracks in the pipe joints, deposits of grit and the detection of tree roots, the “nemesis” of any sewer system, according to Utilities Director Jesse Dutcher in the city staff report.. ...