Volume 105 • Number 104 • Friday, May 29, 2015 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO 75¢

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Ominous cloudsJolene Kerwin captured this photo near Stanberry on her way to work Thursday morning, shortly before yet another day of rainfall. Have you taken a photo you’re especially proud of? The Maryville Daily Forum is searching for reader-submitted photos. Whether it’s a nature shot or a picture of those closest to you, submit your best photos to news@maryvilledailyforum.com or submit them online. Your photo might be featured in Photo of the Week.

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Before and afterThe Maryville City Council has set Monday, June 15, as the date for a grand-opening ceremony celebrating completion of the $1.9 million West Fourth Street streetscape project, which has created a landscaped, architecturally integrated pedestrian corridor between the courthouse square and the main entrance to Northwest Missouri State University. Pictured above are before-and-after photos illustrating how the street has changed following almost a year of construction.

City celebrating end of Fourth Street buildBy TONY BROWNStaff writer

Taking up a brief agenda during its holiday-delayed session this week, the Maryville City Council on Wednesday acted on a couple of land-use measures and tied up some final loose ends related to the recent completion of the $1.9 mil-lion West Fourth Street corridor streetscape project.

In addition, the council set the date for a grand-opening ceremo-ny celebrating the new streetscape,

which links downtown to the main entrance of Northwest Missouri State University.

The public gathering is to in-clude food, entertainment and an appearance by Bobby Bearcat and will take place from 6-8 p.m. Monday, June 15.

Fourth Street ordinances passed by the council Wednesday ad-dressed a couple of change orders submitted by the general contrac-tor, Orr Wyatt Streetscapes.

The biggest change, which added $36,000 to the total project

cost, replaced a battered retaining wall in the vicinity of West Fourth and North Mulberry. Funds to cover the new wall’s construction came from earlier savings created when the city decided to perform a significant portion of site inspec-tion activity in-house.

Other changes had to do with project upgrades each costing un-der $5,000.

City Manager Greg McDanel has the authority to sign off on such relatively small changes, but in this case the extra work had an

accumulated price tag of almost $20,000 and so was submitted to the council, which had been in-formed about the projects before-hand on an individual basis.

Added work covered under change orders included a new storm water inlet at Peach Creek, removal of an old fuel tank and contaminated soil, retaining wall and sidewalk construction not cov-ered under the original contract, additional 6-inch water pipe, and a water service connection at Fourth and Fillmore.

To pay for these projects, the city took $6,400 from the Water/Sewer Fund and split the remain-ing $13,200 between the General and Capital Improvement funds.

Also this week, the council ap-proved a second contract with Orr Wyatt Streetscapes for construc-tion of six “wayfinding” signs de-signed to point motorists and pe-destrians traveling on Main Street toward the new corridor.

The signs will be 15-feet high with 5-foot decorative brick ped-

See COUNCIL, Page 6

Sheriff’s Department purchases body camsBy TONY BROWNStaff writer

The Nodaway County Sheriff’s Depart-ment has joined what is becoming a univer-sal trend in law enforcement and will equip all of its officers with body-worn cameras.

Sheriff Darren White said Wednesday the cameras, which have arrived from the man-ufacturer and are currently being charged and programmed, should be in use by the end of next week and were purchased after an extended period during which the depart-

ment tested various makes and models.White called such cameras “the wave of

the future in law enforcement,” and “an as-set in both criminal prosecution and in the prevention of frivolous litigation.”

The Nodaway County Commission bud-geted $15,000 for the acquisition of Sher-iff’s Department cameras during the current calendar year. In a report to the commission earlier this spring, Deputy Jamie Vicker said he anticipated that amount would be sufficient to purchase both body cameras

TONY BROWN/DAILY FORUM

In the pictureCapt. David Glidden downloads audio/video files from one of the Nodaway County Sher-iff’s Department’s new body-worn cameras, pictured at left. Glidden said the cameras have enough storage capacity to record continuously throughout at least one duty shift, and prob-ably two or three. However, deputies will download the devices daily at the conclusion of their tours. Body cameras are being issued to 13 uniformed county officers, including Sheriff Darren White, 11 deputies and a bailiff and should be fully deployed by the end of next week.

See CAMERAS, Page 3