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Lock Haven council debates dissolving water authority as funding, PUC timing loom
Summary
Council discussion and public comment centered on a first-reading ordinance to acquire the city authority'''s water and wastewater systems, potential formation of a joint municipal authority, and how delays could jeopardize funding and raise customer rates.
Lock Haven City Council spent the bulk of its Aug. 7 meeting debating a proposed ordinance that would transfer the city'''s water and wastewater systems from the Lock Haven City Authority to the city and dissolve the authority, amid concerns about grant timing, rate impacts and who would operate the system.
The ordinance, presented for first reading, would have the city assume financial and contractual obligations of the authority and terminate the authority under Pennsylvania municipal authority law. Councilors, authority representatives and residents repeatedly urged caution: several speakers said a hasty dissolution could delay design work for the Keller Dam project and other improvements, and that delay could increase construction costs.
"There are a lot of questions to be answered," a representative of the authority (Speaker 6) said when asked about contract transfers and who would execute pending grant work. The…
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