Public works committee hears updates on fiber installs, new equipment, waterways work and park grants

The Ocean Shores Public Works Committee met March 23 and received a series of operations and capital-project updates, including local fiber cabinet work, a new bucket truck for the street crew, freshwater boat operations and park grant plans.

The committee chair said Bridal Fiber has increased crews to three working in the city rights-of-way, has encountered but managed a few instances of crews hitting water and sewer lines, and has completed a cabinet installation by the public workshop; the chair said no date had been set for accepting customers. "They now have two additional crews here, so that makes three crews in total that they have working in the right of ways right now," the chair said.

Staff reported the city purchased a bucket truck for Ocean Shores Public Works and received it the previous Friday. "Our mechanic, Ken McKay, as well as the street department crew chief, Alex Severson, both approved of it," the chair said, and staff said the purchase was made from equipment…