A new committee has been created to examine the problems created by deer in the Fort Dodge city limits.

Mayor Matt Bemrich said Monday evening that the panel consists of representatives of Webster County Conservation and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources; Councilman Terry Moehnke; Dennis Plautz, the chief executive officer of the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance and an avid hunter; and police Capt. Ryan Gruenberg.

Bemrich said the group should conduct some counts of the city’s deer population in early 2019.

Councilman Dave Flattery said he hit a deer with his vehicle in the city limits for the second time in five years over the weekend.

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In other business Monday, the council awarded a two-year contract for fuel for city vehicles to W&H Cooperative Oil Co., which does business in Fort Dodge as Ampride, 3243 Fifth Ave. S., and The Station, 2320 N. 15th St.

Under the contract, the company will sell the city diesel fuel at 15 cents less than advertised price. It will sell the city gasoline at 10 cents less than the advertised price.

The contract will save the city about $15,300 a year, according to a report to the council from the city staff.

The city uses about 66,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year and about 54,000 gallons of gasoline annually, according to that report.

Other bidders for the fuel contract were Kwik Star, which offered 10 cents off the advertised price for both diesel fuel and gasoline; and Star Energy, which offered 11.5 cents off the price of E10 ethanol, 15.5 cents off the price of E85 ethanol and 13.5 cents off the price of diesel fuel.

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Also on Monday, the council entered a contract with Dr. Rachael Sokol to serve as the medical director for the emergency medical care provided by the Fire Department, which assumed responsibility for all ambulance service in the city on July 1. Sokol is the emergency department medical director at UnityPoint Health — Trinity Regional Medical Center.

She will be paid $9,000 to serve as the Fire Department’s medical director.