The Clear Lake City Council voted Monday night to join with the City of Mason City, Cerro Gordo County  and the County’s E911 Service Board  to purchase a public safety records management system.  
    Each of the four participating entities will pay 25 percent of the cost for the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of the records management system.  The cost to the City of Clear Lake will be $74,351.25 the first year, $8,712.50 the second year and $8,712.50 the third.
    According to City Administrator Scott Flory, the city’s current public safety records management system, ALIAS, is very dated and is not “web-based”.  ALIAS is currently supported by the Cerro Gordo Sheriff’s office and will no longer be used by that department when it makes the conversion to the new records management system.  Under the new records management system, all the participating entities will have access to each others records, which is not possible today.
    The Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors has already approved the 28E Agreement.  The Mason City City Council was scheduled to consider the agreement Feb. 19.

South Shore Drive reconstruction
    In other business Monday, the Council  considered the various resolutions necessary to begin the South Shore Drive Reconstruction Project and initiate the special assessment process.  The Council set March 19 as the date for a public hearing for the project.
    The proposed street reconstruction project includes 10 blocks of 32 to 41-foot wide concrete or asphalt street paving; approximately 3,500 feet of water main replacement; water & sanitary sewer service replacements (as necessary); storm sewer piping and related intakes; paved driveway approaches; and sidewalk (as necessary).  
    The engineer’s estimate for the project  is approximately $1.84 million.  The total estimated cost to be assessed to the benefited properties is $840,585.  The city will also be receiving $515,000 in federal funding to complete this project.