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Committee reviews ARPA-funded projects: Highlands College program reimbursement and Metro Sewer solids-handling upgrade
Summary
Members discussed ARPA-funded reimbursements to Highlands College for workforce programs and a $5 million ARPA project to upgrade solids handling at the Metro Sewer plant, with a contractor selected to perform construction work.
Committee members reviewed multiple American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)–funded items that appeared on the expenditure list, including a reimbursement request from Highlands College and construction work for solids handling at the Metro Sewer plant.
Finance staff said the Highlands College claim is part of a roughly $1 million ARPA award to expand workforce programming — including carpentry and mechanics — and that the claim on the expenditure list was a reimbursement request for equipment purchases. Staff described the item as reimbursement for equipment to support programs such as carpentry, mechanics and lineman training.
Separately, commissioners questioned a solids-handling construction claim listed under Swank Enterprises (transcript) and were told the county selected a contractor (referred to in the meeting as Schwenk) to complete a screw-press solids-handling upgrade at the Metro Sewer plant. Staff described the solids-handling project as approximately a $5,000,000 ARPA-funded project to replace and update equipment used to process residuals left after wastewater treatment.
Commissioners characterized the topic as part of routine capital and ARPA-funded projects; no separate formal vote on the individual ARPA projects was recorded apart from the overall expenditure-list approval.
