Residents will see a rise of their utility payments early subsequent 12 months after the Metropolis Council voted to cross an 8% payment improve from Sanitation Options onto prospects on the Tuesday night time assembly in Metropolis Corridor.
The rise will add lower than $1 to the person buyer payments, officers stated.
Sanitation Options initially requested a 9.35% improve due to what Sanitation Options’s Woodie Brantley referred to as “a particularly robust 12 months for our trade.”
Town felt that was too excessive and the corporate and council got here to the 8% improve as a compromise.
“Y’all have been great,” Mayor Ann Dashing stated. “You understand your enterprise.”
Councilwoman Bonnie Snider agreed.
“You may have one of the best group of individuals working for you,” she stated. “They’re a real asset.”
The council additionally voted to get severe with utility prospects on their utility invoice.
Metropolis Supervisor Deana Smith introduced the matter to the council saying, “I’m simply asking that we begin imposing the ordinance.”
To any extent further, utility prospects who don’t pay their payments by 10-days from the due date listed on the invoice will face a shutdown on water going to their properties.
Town accepted an $827,175 bid from Rondoe Houses for the development of six homes within the HOME Program. The properties might be constructed for gratis to town as a result of Clarksville’s inhabitants is low sufficient to qualify for the no-match qualification.
Town gave Hearth Chief Rocky Tolison the go forward to get repairs completed to one of many metropolis’s fireplace vans. The invoice is round $11,000, however Tolison informed council that he has secured a grant from the state forestry service to cowl 90% of the price. However the metropolis has to pay the invoice and wait to be reimbursed which Tolison estimated would take round three weeks.
The council additionally voted to shut Metropolis Corridor at present at midday and purchase $25 present playing cards for town staff.
