Lisbon School Board and Lisbon City Council met to discuss accomplishments and review the softball and baseball field contract for another year Monday, April 27.

City of Lisbon Sharing of Information

Lisbon city administrator Brandon Siggins began the meeting by sharing that the city awarded the Well No. 5 bid to Wendler, Inc. to finish up the remaining work on the well.

Regarding the work on Well No. 5, Siggins said, “They’re going to be hitting it heavy here once the weather straightens out.”

Along with Well No. 5, other spring and summertime projects have begun as well, including the ball diamonds at the sports complex.

According to Siggins, underground pipes for the sprinkler system were installed last fall, and the backstop poles that anchor to the fence and dugouts have been put in, with the full project expected to be complete by the end of summer. Come spring 2027, the ball diamonds will be ready for teams to begin playing on them.

Other upcoming projects are coming up, including patchwork on roads in Lisbon such as Washington Street, as well as potential development at the industrial park. There is also potential for industrial or housing development next to the sports complex.

“There’s a 40-acre parcel of land out next to the complex that the owner is open to discussing with developers or realtors for a possible housing development,” Siggins said.

Siggins urged council and school board members to reach out to him or Eric Krob, an owner of all but 15-acres of the land in the industrial park, if they know anyone interested in developing in Lisbon.

Siggins added that there will be a special election held in September as a public vote on EMS districts within the city.

“The state has passed language that you can now tax for EMS coverage; before, that was just part of the general fund. This would be an additional tax. It would be equal to the fire tax that’s already in place, so it would be separate, and essentially, what that’s going to do is fund the ambulance service,” Siggins said.

While the state has set new language on EMS districts, the Lisbon-Mount Vernon Ambulance Service did the legwork to get signatures to move this special election forward.

Currently, the ambulance service is entirely reliant on what they get for bills and fundraising, as it is mostly a volunteer service, which makes it more difficult for it to function 24/7. However, the additional EMS tax would allow the Lisbon-Mount Vernon Ambulance Service to better staff the service with paid staff around the clock.

Lisbon School Board Sharing of Information

Lisbon Community School District Superintendent, Autumn Pino, gave the council a heads-up for upcoming track meets that will cause parking congestion both within town and along Business 30.

These upcoming track meets include the Tri-Rivers Conference Meet today (Thursday, May 7) that Lisbon was selected to host on rotation, a junior high track meet on Friday, May 8, and the state qualifying meet on Thursday, May 14.

To clear out the campus, the Lisbon Community School District has switched their regularly scheduled early dismissal on Wednesday, May 13 to Thursday, May 14.

Regarding traffic congestion, councilmember Kevin Steele raised the concern of vehicles on Business 30 being parked too closely to the crosswalks across the highway.

Although no final decisions were made about how to manage the issue, the council and the board worked together in discussing potential options like having a police officer managing parking or placing traffic cones that keep people from parking too close to the crosswalks.

Pino also shared that the junior high track team currently has 81 students on the team.

“That is just phenomenal and unheard of in districts our size, so I think it’s a testament to the Lisbon community, the parent dedication, the encouragement of school pride, and all that goes with that, and probably our feeder systems and parks and rec and other things that we just instill this idea of getting involved,” Pino said.

On the school’s side of projects, Pino explained that while the major renovations within the school are complete, there are still minor changes that are being made, including the addition of plaques for the Lisbon Alumni Association Hall of Fame hung in the auditorium lobby, and the legacy hallway.

The legacy hallway is the hallway in which the athletic trophy case is located.

Lisbon community members have expressed a desire for the photos to be hung back up, and the school is listening. The biggest hold up has been making sure the photos fit on the wall with room for any future photos.

“It’ll all be back up. … One of the things that held it up is that we had thicker frames and we just decided to maximize space they just need to be a little bit thinner,” Pino said before going on to say, “The reality is—and it’s a testament to Lisbon—we have a problem here because we have high achievers, and we’ve run out of space.”

The school has received mixed feedback on how to hang the photos back up. Currently, the school’s plan is to hang the photos back up how they were when they were taken down.

Going forward, the Lisbon School Board will be approving the list of graduates at their next board meeting, and they are looking forward to Lisbon’s graduation ceremony, which will be held Sunday, May 17 at 1 p.m. in the Lion’s Den.

Shared Usage of City Park Facilities and School Facilities—Lease Agreement

Lisbon’s Parks and Rec director, Drayton Kamberling, shared with the school board that the city will allow the baseball team to leave the fence up around the baseball fields as long as the school and the baseball team take care of the leaves that accumulate around it in the fall.

Kamberling has previously spoken with the Lisbon High School baseball team’s head coach, Lance Kamaus, on the subject. Kamaus has agreed to work with Kamberling in making sure that leaves are taken care of in the spring.

Brandon Siggins will be trying to get the Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) moved from inside the concession stand to being mounted outside the pavilion at the baseball and softball fields “before everything gets kicked off.”

There has been no tampering of the AEDs mounted on the pavilion at the sports complex, so Siggins is hopeful that they will see the same results at the park.

Both the Lisbon City Council and the Lisbon School Board agreed that communication between the two is critical and maintaining that communication will allow the relationship to remain seamless.

The lease agreement between the city and the school is expiring in November 2027, which is what allows the city to use school facilities, and the school to use city facilities.

With the lease agreement ending next fall, the council and school board have set an earlier meeting date of March 10, 2027, in the Pride Room at Lisbon School.