The wait is over.
The City of Tallassee City Council finally awarded a bid for upgrades to be done at the Tallassee Water Treatment Plant. Tallassee Mayor Sarah Hill said the Tallassee City Council has been in discussion about awarding a bid for several months. Now, the council has awarded a bid for less than it initially thought.
“I’m so happy that we’re going to get this done, and get it done at a cheaper rate than what we expected,” Hill said. “Last year, I told you guys that we got a grant from the state for about $584,000, and the city was going to have to match that $584,000. It was a 50/50 grant to get the pipe gallery at the water treatment plant updated and fixed.”
After a filter at the plant stopped working last October, the council began looking for grants to get it updated and fixed, Hill said. Just five months later, the council awarded a bid to Rehab Construction Co. for $557,145.65. The bid must also be conditionally approved by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
In other infrastructural discussion, the council approved a resolution to create a line item for repairs in the water department.
“Several years ago, the City of Tallassee bought some water lines near Taylor Road,” Hill said. “Those have become an issue as of late, so we’re going to open a line item for repairs in the water department, and I’d like to go ahead and put $20,000 into that for right now, just to address some of the issues.”
Hill said following a recent storm, there was a water leak from those water lines, resulting in multiple homes without water until it was repaired.
In other business, the council approved changing regular council meeting days from the second and fourth Tuesday of every month to the second and fourth Monday. Because of this change, there will not be a second March meeting, and the council will meet again on the second Monday of April.
In other action, the City of Tallassee City Council:
• Approved minutes of the Feb. 25 work session and regular council meetings.
• Held promotions for police officers.
• Read a proclamation for the late Art Lamberth.
• Read an Arbor Day proclamation.
• Approved a resolution authorizing formal amendment to CDBG demolition grant.
• Ward 5 councilmember Terrel Brown was absent from the meeting.