Council buys former downtown gas station
A former gasoline station on the southside of downtown Fort Dodge will eventually be knocked down to make room for the base of a new municipal broadband utility.
The City Council voted Monday night to buy the station at 204 S. Eighth St. from Daniel and Danielle Altman for $35,000.
The station at the corner of Second Avenue South and Eighth Street housed Jim’s Service Inc. from the early 1950s until December 2015. It closed when its last owners, Randy Kay and Randy Daniel, retired. The building has been vacant since then.
The city is developing a broadband utility to provide high speed internet service. Construction of the system is expected to begin next summer.
In other business, the council bought 40 new body cameras and related equipment for the Police Department from Keltek Inc., of Baxter, for $77,988.83. These cameras will replace the older ones now in use.