PEA RIDGE — A special City Council meeting was set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug.
28, to repeal the ordinance raising sewer rates as public notice had not been properly advertised for the public hearing as required before the rates were raised. The ordinance was approved at the regular July meeting following a public hearing attended by about a dozen people. The rates were to have gone into effect this month, but will not until after the Sept. 18 public hearing and Council meeting, according to Ken Hayes, water/wastewater superintendent.
The increased sewer rates are needed to pay for improvements to the sewer treatment plant to meet state- and federally-mandated guidelines.
City Clerk Sandy Button was honored with a plaque for her 35 years of service to the city.
City Council members approved an amendment to the city business license providing an exception for sales of items by “religious, charitable and non-profit groups on a temporary basis for fund-raising events.”
In other business, the Council:
◊Selected Morgan Keegan Bond as bond counsel for the Waste Water Treatment Plant project;
◊Opened bids for city’s fleetand property insurance and selected to use the Municipal League insurance for vehicles saving more than $25,000 and continue with Sims and Renner of Rogers for buildings and other equipment;
◊Accepted a bid of $148,800 for headworks and north lift stationby Mathis, Carter & Associate, PA;
◊Took no action on a proposal to allow fireworks on Labor Day as there was still a burn ban in effect in the county.
The next regularly-schedule City Council meeting is 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 18.
News, Pages 1 on 08/29/2012