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Pawnee City Mayor Wants Action On Burned Buildings

By John Nixon

03/31/2016

(KLZA)-- The patience of City officials in Pawnee City are wearing thin with the burned buildings in the downtown area.

In September of last year a fire severely damaged two buildings owned by Eileen Hines, and resulted in damage to neighboring buildings in the block.

Hines lives in Hawaii and her husband Jerry Graham has been working on cleaning up debris and trying to keep the fronts of the buildings standing. Graham met with the Council and City Attorney Joe Stehlik this week.

Mayor Deb Klein told Graham that it is time to either hire a company to raze the buildings or hire a company to come in and bring the buildings to a standard so they are no longer causing neighboring buildings, housing businesses to suffer.

Klein also told Graham he needs to get the buildings put into his name, instead of his wife’s name so he had authority to take action, or that the city would be taking action against the properties.

Klein also told City Attorney Joe Stehlik, who is a member of the Historic Preservation Committee that would like to see the facades of the historical buildings preserved, that if he had an issue with representing the City taking action against the properties, the City would hire an outside attorney.

Stehlik said he had not had any contact with Eileen Hines, but he did not have an issue with representing the City in the matter.

Graham was directed to appear at the April 11th City Council meeting to update the Council on progress.

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