The new residential development on 30th Street will adjoin Countyside East, pictured on the left.
Bethany, MO: The city of Bethany will be adding another street to its summer paving project following action taken by the City Council on Monday night.
The council voted 3-1 to add 21st Street to Herzog’s paving contract that will get underway in mid-July. City Administrator Jonne Slemons said the street was inadvertently left out of the street program that was presented to contractors for bidding.
The council voted to appropriate $16,997 to add 21st Street to the paving program, expected to now cost $989,905.45. Westward Councilman Randy Brejnik voted against the measure, while Randy Mann, Charlie Crabtree and Lance Johns voted in favor.
The city has had to postpone the 14th Street repaving until some large tubes are replaced.
Slemons said the city expects to have $177,744.98 in the street budget at the end of the year.
“We won’t be able to do a full fledged program next year with that amount of money,” she said.
In other business, the council voted to table a proposal to paint bicycle lanes on some city streets. The cost of that project was estimated to be $5,580.
Slemons reported that the north Daily Road sewer lift station failed over the weekend. The city began pumping sewage into a nearby manhole but abandoned that process when effluent backed up into a nearby home. The city will now use a tanker truck to pump out sewage to be transported on a daily basis to the wastewater treatment plant. The city will be looking into a new replacement for the lift station.
City officials conducted their final walk-through of the treatment plant over the past week and have scheduled an opening ceremony for 1:30 p.m. on June 6.
In other business:
● The council approved the purchase of new fire and wildfire gear for the fire department at a cost of $5,439. The items will be purchased with funds from rural fire memberships.
● A special election was set for the August 7 primary for a proposed 1.875% use tax on online purchases.
● The owner of the old Dollar General Store on the Square has rejected an offer by the city to purchase the building as a community center.
● The council tabled a proposal by the police department to purchase new Taser guns. The city asked for more information about the cost of the devices which exceeded the city’s budget estimate by $3,000.