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Continued from page 1 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."
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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
Howe PD and Fire
Continued from page 1 his brain, face and shoulder The driver was charged with failure to secure his load
Howe Interim Police Chief Michael Hill, who was first on the scene, initially thought the wreck was fatal But Hardy said if it wasn’t for the quick response of police officers, fire and EMS - some of whom he trained - he probably wouldn’t be here today.
“It's very ironic,” Hardy said “If any hands had to show up and take care of me, if it couldn't be my brothers here, I’m glad it was just somebody that I was responsible for teaching skills that they brought with them that day"
Hardy spent two months in rehabilitation after his hospitalization. He returned to work in February He thanked the first responders Tuesday where officers from Howe and Van Alstyne Police Departments and a Careflight EMS crew member received plaques
“I did my job I did what I was supposed to do, what I signed up to do,” Hill said.
