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Council committee advances plan for $1.3 million water‑meter radio‑read upgrade
Summary
Council committees advanced a proposal to replace roughly 5,200 manual-read meters with radio-read equipment funded from water and sewer funds (not the general fund), with an authorization not to exceed $1.3 million; the mayor said it will reduce labor costs and enable future telemetry and faster leak detection.
City staff presented a proposal to upgrade roughly 5,200 of Athens’s approximately 6,000 water meters to radio-read equipment under a Sourcewell cooperative purchasing agreement, asking for authorization not to exceed $1,300,000 split evenly between water and sewer funds.
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