GAS — City Clerk Rhonda Hill will go door-to-door here to encourage residents to complete a family income survey.
Hill told council members Tuesday evening the city is 110 surveys short of having enough to qualify for a storm shelter grant. So far, 178 have been returned.
The grant would pay half the cost of installing a $60,000 community storm shelter.
Gas plans to accumulate about $225,000 over the next 15 years to pay half the cost of removing sludge and doing other maintenance work at a sewer lagoon it and LaHarpe own jointly.
“We will have the lagoon (and associated equipment) paid for in seven years and then can put more money in a maintenance fund,” said Mayor Darrel Catron.
Annual construction bond retirement payments are about $20,000. No increase in sewer rates is anticipated.
City Superintendent Steve Robb told council members a cart tipper for the trash collection truck was built in house for less than $1,000. Purchasing a commercial model would have cost more than $2,000 and likely would have required some modification to fit the Gas truck, he said.
