July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.

Sutter gets Fort contract (1/18/05)

New sewer line will be installed

By By Jennifer Tarter-

FORT RECOVERY — Village council members here awarded a contract Monday for a sanitary sewer project.

The council accepted a $79,192.75 bid from Sutter Excavation of Celina, Ohio to replace sanitary sewer lines on Gwendolyn and West Center streets.

This is the second of three projects planned for this area. In the first project, work to replace water and storm sewer lines is nearly complete. The approximately $50,000 project was done by village employees. The final project will create curbs and sidewalks, and the streets will be resurfaced.

Fort Recovery village administrator Randy Diller said Monday Sutter Excavation will start construction in the next few weeks and have the project completed by the end of April.

Bids on that work also were submitted by Chuck Samples General Contracting Inc. of Celina for $88,132 and by Tumbusch Construction of St. Henry, Ohio for $98,646.98.

Also Monday, council members approved the village’s combined sewer overflow long-term control plan.

The plan will now be submitted to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency by the Jan. 20 deadline. The EPA must approve the estimated $3.1 million four-phase project plan.

Before approving the plan Monday, council members discussed the sewer rate increases planned during the proposed 20-year project. The rate is scheduled to increase a total of $8 per month during those 20 years — with an increase planned in 2006 and three more increases projected every five years after 2006.

“There hasn’t been a sewer (rate) increase in 12 years,” Diller said.

In other business, Mayor Roger Broerman told council members he has heard several comments from residents complimenting village employees on their efforts to clean up limbs and brush following the Jan. 5 ice storm.

“I want to thank everyone for their hard work,” Broerman said.

Diller said the village had a lot of cooperation from firefighters and area residents who volunteered their time toward the clean-up effort.

The limbs and brush collected are being piled in Ambassador Park and will be burned later this year, Diller said. Village employees will continue working to pick up limbs from residences, in cemeteries and parks.

Also Monday, council members:

•Discussed creating the position of utility department operator. The person hired for this position will work for the water department. Both men who currently work in that department are close to retirement age but have not set a date when they plan to retire. Diller said the village is looking at creating this position to hire someone when a water department employee retires. Council members decided to discuss the position at a future meeting.

The village currently has two street and two water department employees.

•Heard Diller report he has not heard from Ohio engineering firm Burgess & Niple about constructing a Cingular Wireless tower on village property. He submitted a proposal for construction of the tower following the council’s Jan. 3 meeting.

•Approved transfers of $3,500 to the park debt fund from the income tax fund and $4,500 to the water debt fund from the water revenue fund.[[In-content Ad]]
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