The Toledo City Council meeting this week got right to business discussing bids for the wastewater treatment plant disinfection improvements project. The high bidder, who was awarded the contract, was Scharnweber’s.

A Mutual Law Enforcement Aid agreement was approved by the council. This agreement is between the Toledo Police Department and the Tama Police Department and is to help cover any gaps in coverage — as both departments are not currently fully staffed, this agreement is designed to help both cities.

The council accepted the resignation of Toledo EMS part-time paramedic Amanda Morris.

The public works department reported that a problem with underground pipes at the sewer plant has been fixed and items at the park from the Jolly Lights at the Heights event are being cleaned up.

The city attorney reported that depositions have been taken in the Kyle Howe matters, and everything “went well.” A summary judgment hearing in federal court was just held, and they’re waiting to hear the ruling in that matter.

Toledo Police Chief Dan Quigley reported that between Dec. 9 and 22, the department responded to 76 calls to service and affected one arrest. SRO Vern Jefferson braved the cold rainy weather to head up another food drive a week or so back.

Quigley thanked Fire Chief Kendall Jordan for arranging for the ladder truck to hang an American flag off the Broadway overpass as local emergency personnel joined a funeral procession last Friday, paying respects to a late Iowa officer who was buried in nearby Le Grand.