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BID agrees to cover downtown water-meter costs this year; board will revisit during budget cycle
Summary
The BID agreed to pay this year’s bills for three downtown spigot meters assigned to the BID and to treat two meters as part of the BID’s contribution to Roots and Branches; staff will include the meters in the August–September budget discussions.
Board members heard a staff report that five spigots/meters were installed downtown during the Main Street reconstruction; two are paid by parks and three were assigned to the BID about June of last year. Staff told the board that Roots and Branches, the volunteer group that maintains many planting beds downtown, has used some taps and that the BID had been billed for three meters since last summer.
Staff presented three options: (1) the BID pay the meters as a BID expense this year, (2) treat the two meters primarily used by volunteers…
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