The Corsicana City Council gave approval Tuesday to sell up to $4 million in revenue bonds for a series of utility projects in the coming year.
The money will be paid back with money earned from the water/sewer department.
Most of the money will be used to relocate utilities along Seventh Avenue, where the state intends to fix the street’s drainage problems. The area of construction will be roughly from Beaton Street west to 29th Street, according to City Manager Connie Standridge.
In addition, the money will go to build a water booster station on West Park Row behind the former KMart building; to relocate a water line that runs parallel to East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from just east of Seventh Street out to Interstate 45; and to reconstruct an 18-inch sewer line between North 29th Street and North 26th Street.
Combined, the projects should cost about $3.75 million, but the authorization allows for more if the bids come in high, Standridge said.
In other business:
• The council approved applying for financial assistance from the Texas Water Development Board’s 2011 program. If the city receives the money, it will go towards expansion of the Lake Halbert treatment plant and construction of the Richland Chambers pumping station.
• The council also approved a lease agreement for the Corsicana Nursing Home slab. The renters, Bart Lockhart and John Shepherd, will pay $250 to use the slab for 23 days as a staging area for a construction project. They’re required to get liability insurance and to leave the property as they found it.
• Heard a request from Rachel Wassom and her son, Winton Tacker, regarding his payment for a door at the animal shelter. A former volunteer and employee, Tacker damaged the door in a fit of anger last year and was forced to resign. Wassom asked that she be allowed to repay the door two weeks later than the deadline, and to be allowed to appeal his resignation. They were told to make an appointment with Police Chief Randy Bratton.
• Jason Grant of the Corsicana Police Officers Association awarded three Johnny Derden Scholarships in honor of the former Corsicana police officer. The scholarships are for the children of police officers.
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