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Bluff City approves budget amendments to repair public-works truck and replace gate
Summary
The Bluff City Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved first-reading appropriation ordinances to fund repairs to a 2011 Ford F-250 used for salt spreading and to replace the gate at the public works facility. Council members cited safety and security as reasons for the expenditures and scheduled the second reading at a later special meeting.
The Bluff City Board of Mayor and Aldermen on the evening of the meeting approved first-reading budget amendments to repair a 2011 Ford F-250 assigned to public works and to purchase a replacement gate and operator for the public works facility.
City staff said the F-250 is currently inoperable and unsafe to drive and that the truck is the vehicle outfitted as the town’s salt truck, with no backup available for winter road treatment. The ordinance to amend the fiscal-year appropriation for the repair was presented as ordinance 2024-010 in the meeting packet; the board moved and approved the ordinance on a voice vote. The transcript records the repair amount in the ordinance as $6,600 and…
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