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Bluff City leaders review water and sewer budget as treatment-plant outage looms
Summary
City officials reviewed the proposed water and sewer budgets, discussed anticipated bids and a likely multi‑week shutdown of the water treatment plant that could require purchasing water, and debated where staffing and costs should be charged across funds.
Bluff City officials spent a large portion of their meeting reviewing water and sewer appropriations, discussing an upcoming water treatment plant shutdown, the potential cost of purchasing replacement water, and how personnel and retirement costs should be allocated among funds.
The discussion matters because the treatment plant is scheduled for work soon and officials said the plant could be "down for several weeks," which would force the city to buy water and could materially affect the city’s budget numbers for the fiscal year.
At the meeting, council members identified page 7 of the budget packet as the start of the water and sewer section and walked through line items. "I I believe we're on page 7, which starts water security," one member said when the group returned to budgeting. Council members and staff noted an existing capital or operating grant that may require the city to pay out about $800,000 up front and be reimbursed later by the Tennessee Department of Environment…
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