Council Talks Backwoods Water Again; Denies Funding For Trip

July 22, 2008

Improved water service for Backwoods Road was once again a topic of discussion for the Century Town Council at their Monday night meeting.

The council recently voted to include Backwoods Road in a $1.7 million project to be funded with a USDA Rural Development loan.

The fee for the town’s engineer company Fabre Engineering was not included in the original loan amount, according to Dale Long from Fabre. Engineering design and permitting fees associated with Backwoods Road will be $26,588, he said. The council approved payment in that amount.

Long said additional cost will be incurred if Fabre must work to obtain right of way easements along the road. Obtaining the right of way has delayed any water improvements along Backwoods Road for years.

But Long said he recently was told that the right of way easement may already exist without the need to obtain additional easements.

“I’d like to think that at the end of the day we’d have enought right of way,” he said.

“There just seems to be a hangup between the county and the city,” Backwoods Road resident Elbert Dixon told the council. While Backwoods Road is served by the Town of Century water system, it is actually not in the city but in the county.

“We as a neighborhood out there are tired of being bounced around,” Dixon said. “It’s time to do something. We are fed up with it. It is time to do something.”

In other business, the council refused to accept their meeting minutes from a council meeting and Community Development Block Grant public hearing on July 7.

“I found so many errors that I’m not willing to vote on this tonight,” council member Ann Brooks said. “I don’t feel like I need to be the proofreader.”

  • The council voted to deny fund for Brooks to attend a league of cities training session in October. Brooks requested that the funding be denied, by the league actually offers a scholarship for city officials denied funding.
  • The council decided to approve a bill list twice per month rather than just once per month.
  • The council was informed by Mayor Freddie McCall that he did not have any new information about the status of Helicopter Technologies in the Century Industrial Park.

The council’s next meeting will be August 4 at 7:00 p.m.

Comments

One Response to “Council Talks Backwoods Water Again; Denies Funding For Trip”

  1. Gayle on July 25th, 2008 9:42 pm

    HANG IN THERE BACKWOODS MAYBE YOU WILL GET HELP BEFORE MATHIS TRAILER PARK#2 YOU KNOW THE RICH FOLKS THAT GETS ALL THE FREE HELP!

    GOOD LUCK

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