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Council approves East Basin resolution, settlement authorization and multiple infrastructure and equipment payments
Summary
The council adopted a Clean Water Fund resolution reducing the East Basin appropriation to $0, authorized a settlement in pending tax-assessment litigation, approved engineering invoices for sanitary sewer projects and cleared purchases and leases for fleet and parks equipment, many subject to Board of Finance review.
The Torrington City Council voted on a series of administrative, infrastructure and procurement items during its April 20 meeting, approving a Clean Water Fund resolution, a litigation settlement authorization and multiple payments and equipment purchases.
Resolution 143-290 for the East Basin project (Clean Water Fund project number 695-DC) was adopted with the effect of reducing the appropriation and bond authorization for the project to $0. The council then voted to enter (and subsequently exited) an executive session to discuss pending litigation Caleb Associates LLC v. City of Torrington, and later authorized the mayor to enter a settlement agreement in that matter.
Acting as the water pollution control authority, the council approved two payments to Wright-Pierce Engineering: invoice 255543 for $13,797 for the Harris Drive pump-station upgrade design and invoice 2550965 for $2,121 for the Winston Road force-main replacement project. The council noted these design costs are part of a larger, approximately $10 million project and that initial expenses will be reimbursed via a congressional grant.
On fleet and equipment, the council approved the five-year vehicle replacement plan (subject to Board of Finance approval) and voted to purchase two Ford F-550 crew utility trucks for the street division (not to exceed $262,500) and one F-550 work truck for the parks division (not to exceed $141,750), both procured under state contract. The council also approved a five-year lease-to-own agreement for a John Deere roadside boom mower with five annual payments of $42,471.36 (total cost reported as $212,356.80).
Administratively, the council accepted the Building Department report for March 2026 and authorized tax and sewer-usage refunds as listed on the April 20 schedules. Several items noted that additional approvals (for example, board-of-finance review on certain fleet items) remain part of the procedural pathway.
Votes on these items were recorded as moved, seconded and approved during the meeting; the council asked staff for additional project detail in a few instances (for example, the design scope on the Harris Drive upgrade).
