A resolution that would have given the city authorization to seek repayment of dental insurance benefits from former City Court Judge Fred Larson has been pulled from today’s City Council voting session agenda.

The resolution was included in the agenda when it was sent out to the media and made available to the public Thursday. It was pulled from a revised agenda Friday afternoon. The situation has been resolved and no further action will be taken.

City Council members will vote tonight when they meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor council chambers in City Hall to allocate $100,000 from the city’s American Rescue Plan Act funding to pay the final bills for splash pads at Allen and Jackson-Taylor parks.

The council’s Finance Committee had tabled the spending request during its meeting Monday while council members waited to hear if it was better to pay the money out of the city’s contingency fund or from ARPA money. The city is waiting for state grant money it was scheduled to receive from Assemblyman Andrew Goodell, R-Jamestown, with council members unsure if the city would be able to reimburse the ARPA fund when the state money is eventually received. Councilman Tony Dolce, R-Ward 2, said Thursday that it was suggested to use ARPA funding that can be reimbursed later.

Council members are also expected to formally approve a new food truck ordinance. The city had a pilot program in place in 2020 after food trucks proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic and created outcry from downtown restaurant owners who wanted limits on where food trucks could operate in order to protect their businesses. Since 2020 there hadn’t been much interest in food trucks until this year, when they began proliferating again. There are some minor changes from the pilot program to the permanent ordinance.

Food trucks, under the new proposal, would be allowed as long as they are more than 20 feet from an intersection and not violate city parking rules. Food trucks on private property would be limited to areas zoned industrial, commercial or institutional, though trucks could be allowed in residential areas if they have been invited by the property’s resident to serve food to the resident or guests.

There is no fee yet included in the draft ordinance, with the city given authority to set an amount once the ordinance is approved. The city will be allowed to determine the average cost of an inspection and charge food truck owners for the inspections required under the ordinance. There will be no fee for mobile food trucks that act as food distributors rather than food vendors, like Conduit Ministries’ mobil food truck ministry.

Food trucks will be required to provide a garbage can for customers and pick up and remove all garbage from within 25 feet of the food truck’s location before it leaves. The ordinance requires a county Health Department permit as well as the city permit.

Also on the agenda are:

– resolutions authorizing the city to pay $5,610 to Chautauqua Sign Co. on Allen Street Extension for vehicle graphics on the new ambulance; the purchase of three Motorola CDM1250 UHF mobile radios costing $449.97; and the purchase of a winter traction package for the ambulance for $1,851 from Barmore-Sellstrom Inc. on Second Street. The $250,000 purchase price for the ambulance paid for the vehicle chassis, ambulance body, warning lights, and siren only. It did not include vehicle upfitting, striping, lettering, fire and medical communications equipment, patient extrication devices, patient loading system, or medical supplies. Money for the new equipment has already been allocated from American Rescue Plan Act funding.

– an agreement with Colliers Engineering and Design of Albany for no more than $22,500 to inspect city-owned parking garages on Cherry, Spring and North Main streets. Parking garages in New York state are required to be inspected by a professional engineer every three years in order to ensure the safety and structural integrity of parking garages. The last reports were completed in 2021.