Mound City Aldermen approved a bid to tear down a building that had been deemed dangerous during their July meeting last week. 
 Aldermen awarded the contract to demolish the building at 501 State Street to Red Rock of Hamilton, Missouri.   Red Rock’s bid of $24,995 was the only bid the city received to tear down the building.  The bid does not include fixing any holes in a common wall from floor joists or chimneys, but does include any repairs needed due to negligence. 
 Red Rock will tear the building down, remove debris, and fill dirt to ground level.  A subcontractor will remove asbestos from the building before it’s torn down, and it will take a couple weeks for asbestos abatement to be completed before the building can be torn down.
 In other action, Aldermen awarded a bid to remove and replace the filter media at the Water Plant to ACCO Unlimited.  Their bid was $25,905 to replace all three filters in one day, ore $27,410 to replace the filters in two days. 
 Aldermen also accepted a quote of $2,225 from McFadden Construction of St. Joseph to lay out and stripe the swimming pool parking lot.  The proposal includes four handicap parking spaces, and the layout includes a road around the perimeter of the lot.  They also approved a motion to have city workers extend the width of the City Hall parking lot entrance and adding a one-inch asphalt overlay to the parking lot as part of the street project.
 After reviewing a drainage concern at 7th and Railroad Street, Aldermen agreed to have Hall Construction place a tube from the ditch on Railroad Street into the drain on 7th at a cost of $250.  Hall Construction will also repair two sections of streets that are sinking.  One is at 712 State Street and the other is at 1501 Nebraska.  The city will only be responsible for paying for the concrete to fix the streets.
 Aldermen reviewed plans for a new pool bathhouse, submitted by Terry Clark of Creal Clark.  The design is for a larger building than the existing structure, with an estimated cost of $350,000.  Alderwoman Kristine Gibson said she’d meet with Clark to revise design plans to reduce costs. 
 Aldermen were informed that the Library roof, which was inspected and repaired last year, still leaks during heavy rain and high winds.  The engineer of the Library renovation project will review the roof.  And, Aldermen agreed to take bids to replace the City Hall roof.  Bids will be taken for a single slope roof as a design-and-build project.