At its Oct. 6 meeting the Dyersburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a series of budgeted purchases and emergency repairs for several city departments and approved securing space for the police special response team.

City staff reported that the police department will install security at a city-owned building (the back half of the Vocational Rehabilitation building, adjacent to the Emergency Operations Center) to house special response team equipment. The work will be paid from the city’s drug fund and is to be performed by local contractor West Tennessee Communications; the police chief said the front half of that building is leased by the state and the city-owned back half is available for SRT use.

On infrastructure matters the board approved an emergency replacement of a nonfunctioning intermediate gearbox at the wastewater treatment plant. The part was purchased from Applied Industrial Technologies; the transcript lists a vendor reference “39301 44” but does not clearly specify the dollar amount in standard formatting.

The board also approved an emergency replacement of about 2,800 feet of 8-inch water line on Viar Road after the existing line was damaged. Marbury Construction was awarded the work; the transcript records an award amount of $160,000. City staff said notification and bid documents were distributed and Marbury Construction picked up bid specs and was awarded the emergency repair.

Other approved items included installation of anode beds on city property near Dyersburg High School to address corrosion of gas lines, awarded to Bed Sullivan Natural Gas Service for $12,000, and replacement of an HVAC unit at the Lyman Ingram Building (low bid $15,500 from Billy Rogers), which was a budgeted item.

The police department also had a budgeted purchase approved for body-worn cameras from Motorola Solutions (WatchGuard system); the purchase was handled as a budgeted item and did not require separate board action beyond acknowledgment on the consent/bid list.

Motions to approve each bid/item were made and seconded as recorded in the meeting; the transcript records voice approvals for each item and shows no dissenting votes on these matters. The board did not add conditions to these approvals during the meeting.

The record does not include detailed contract documents, delivery schedules, or contingency plans; staff follow-up will be required to obtain timelines and full contract amounts where the transcript was ambiguous.