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Finance committee authorizes DEFA loan applications and bid advertising for multiple sewer and storm projects; approves legal services agreement
Summary
Elyria’s Finance Committee on March 31 authorized loan applications to Ohio’s DEFA for major sewer projects and approved advertising for related construction bids, while also approving a legal services agreement tied to city litigation.
Elyria’s Finance Committee on March 31 authorized several borrowing and procurement steps aimed at repairing and upgrading the city’s wastewater and storm infrastructure and approved a professional legal-services agreement for ongoing litigation.
The committee approved ordinances authorizing the mayor to apply for loan agreements through the Ohio Division of Environmental and Financial Assistance (DEFA) for two projects: the Gulf Road Pump Station project (formerly referred to as the Windward siphon project), a project staff described as roughly $4.5 million in scope; and the Lowell Street sanitary sewer extension project, described as a $1.7 million project to extend and upsize sewer lines toward the Open Door Church and adjacent areas. Engineer Schneider told the committee that required easements for the Gulf Road work had been secured.
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