In just 10 minutes the Warsaw Common Council wrapped up a short agenda of business at its second and final regular meeting of the month.

The council opened with the second reading of an ordinance to amend the speed limit on Poppy Street. At the Nov. 5 meeting, the council held the first public hearing on reducing the speed limit from 30 mph to 20 mph.

Poppy Street has only once residence on it and is a narrow street mostly used as a short cut to Pike Lake. The sole occupant, Larry Castle, has complained of speeding traffic and says the presence of a deaf child nearby is reason enough to reduce the speed limit.

A recommendation from the Warsaw Traffic Safety Commission was made and the ordinance drafted. With no one present to object to the reduced speed limit, the ordinance was signed into law.

In the only other matter of business to come before the council, assistant planner Tim Dombrosky asked the council to deposit $50,000 back into the Greenway Master Plan Fund. The monies were initially taken from four different funds to pay for the project but the reimbursement grant from the Indiana State Department of Health covered the costs 100 percent.

Mayor Joe Thallemer gave a brief update on the progress of the new city hall building at the corner of Center and Buffalo streets in downtown Warsaw. He noted the parking lot has been completed and city offices will begin moving in to the new building on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 29-30.

“There is still a slight concern that our cabinets won’t be in and that would delay things, but there’s a pretty good possibility everything will be ready to roll,” he said.

The common council is planning to meet in the new city hall for the Dec. 3 meeting, but Thallemer said he was not entirely sure the chambers would be ready.

Warsaw Common Council meets at 7 p.m. the first and third Mondays of each month.