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La Conner council approves temporary public-works storage lease and retroactive wastewater-plant gearbox purchase
Summary
Council approved a month-to-month lease for temporary storage of public-works equipment and retroactively approved a roughly $7,300 gearbox purchase for the wastewater treatment plant; both motions were approved by voice vote.
La Conner’s town council approved multiple operational items on the consent and new-business portions of the agenda, including a temporary storage lease for public-works equipment and a retroactive purchase for wastewater-plant equipment.
Council approved the consent agenda (which included prior meeting minutes) by voice vote earlier in the meeting. Later, public-works staff described an urgent need for storage of snow-removal equipment and requested a month-to-month lease; the council approved the lease and staff said the cost is covered within the existing budget framework.
Staff also reported an urgent equipment failure at the wastewater treatment plant that required ordering a replacement gearbox immediately. Because the purchase exceeded staff/mayoral approval limits, the council moved to retroactively approve the purchase (recorded in the meeting as approximately $7,300) and approved the motion by voice vote.
Transcript does not include individual recorded vote tallies for these approvals; council recorded approvals by voice vote and noted motions and seconds in the record. No recorded objections were made during these actions.
