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Council
Monday, August 7, 2017
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its citizens. City Administrator Joe Shephard stated that Tomlin Investments owns property at Blythe Road and US Highway 75 and plan to build a waste water treatment facility on that property. EDC Director Monte Walker told the council that Scott Norris of Tomlin Investments stated to him that the worst case scenario would be for it to be completed in 36 months. "They knew coming into it that they would have to develop a sewer plant," said Shephard. "Who ends up controlling it once it's done is something we'll have to work out in the future." Stanley stated that the city would like to see Tomlin partner with another developer and construct a larger sewer facility. "Developers can get an application for a sewer plant a lot quicker than we can," said Stanley. Councilman Bill French asked in discussion if there was a way to reduce the water cost to the citizens immediately. Stanley said that it could be possible, but the city has accumulated so much debt on the water contract that he would like to see that figure diminished before passing on the savings. The city will also have to spend over $100,000 to get the new valves and taps for the new
surface water to be installed to the system. "Once we have that up and running, we'll have about $150,000 savings per year on that line," said Stanley. "But that first year we won't have that savings because we'll be spending $100,000 of it on valves. But once we get into that $150,000 savings, we can definitely look into passing that on to the customers" Sam Haigis also brought up street repair and would like to see a greater portion of the money put towards street repair. "I hate to bring this up, but people on Cassandra (street) really get after me about that trench at FM 902. It just keeps getting deeper and deeper," said Haigis. "I've seen other cities and in comparison we're not doing bad, but we still need to keep on top of it." Councilman Jonathan Coleman expressed his desire for a budget to be set aside for the parks and ballfields to be well maintained. City Administrator Joe Shephard also informed the council that the deadline has passed for the application for Howe Police Chief and the search has been narrowed to two individuals.
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