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Crossville council approves fire truck purchase, authorizes municipal-adviser talks and backs filing of back-tax suits
Summary
At its April 1 meeting the Crossville City Council approved a new fire apparatus purchase, authorized the city attorney to negotiate municipal-adviser terms for the Fire Station 2 project and voted to file delinquent-tax lawsuits while excluding de minimis accounts.
The Crossville City Council approved a series of formal actions at its April 1 meeting, including the purchase of new firefighting apparatus, direction for the city attorney to negotiate municipal-adviser terms for a fire station financing, and authorization to pursue delinquent-property tax suits with a narrow exclusion for very small balances.
The council approved the purchase of a new fire apparatus (agenda item 5M). Councilman Turner corrected a previously published price and said the full apparatus cost is $1,300,000, with a smaller $39,650.52 deposit to be placed into a special account. Turner moved to approve; a second was recorded and the motion carried.
On the Fire Station 2 financing, council voted to allow the city attorney to negotiate a contract with Commerce Securities to review potential municipal-adviser terms and return the proposed contract to council for final…
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