BRENHAM CITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS WATER TREATMENT PLANT REHAB
The Brenham City Council will meet on Thursday to discuss two items pertaining to the water treatment plant rehabilitation.
The City Council will consider a resolution expressing intent to reimburse certain costs related to the water treatment plant rehab. Certificates of Obligation were discussed in budget workshops, and included in this was the water treatment plant rehabilitation and protective coatings project for $677,000. The City would like to begin work in the next six to eight weeks on these planned improvements. In order to issue purchase orders for this project, the Council must approve the reimbursement resolution to declare reimbursement of certain costs related to the capital expenditures from the issuance of Certificates of Obligation to be repaid thru water rates.
The City Council will then go on to consider bids for the water treatment plant rehab. Six bids were received for this project. The low bidder, Hydro Concrete Tank Solutions of TX, LLC, has been recommended by O’Malley Strand. The bid plus all of the additive alternate bids came in at $357,400.
The City Council will also act on the first reading pertaining to the annual repeating of updated service credits and an increase in retirement annuities in the Texas Municipal Retirement System. For many years, City Council has approved, on an annual basis, an ordinance providing for updated service credit (USC) and an increase in retirement annuities as provided through the Texas Municipal Retirement System. If this ordinance is adopted, the city will not have to adopt an ordinance each year to reauthorize calculation of these benefits.
In other business, the Council will consider a purchase related to the emergency repairs to the raw water intake pump at Lake Somerville; an agreement with TxDOT for a temporary closure of roads for the 2016 Christmas Stroll; and a request from Washington County Appraisal District for the disaster reappraisal resulting from the May 2016 flood.
The Brenham City Council will meet on Thursday at 1 p.m. in the second floor council chambers of City Hall.