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Middletown council approves police, street and utility measures and advances water plant work
Summary
At its Sept. 16 meeting the Middletown Town Council approved multiple operational and capital measures — including allowing an officer to take a town vehicle home, purchases for police equipment and street signs, payment on the 5th Street SRF loan and hiring an engineering firm to produce a PER for the water plant replacement.
Middletown — The Middletown Town Council on Sept. 16 approved a series of operational and capital actions intended to support public safety, street maintenance and ongoing infrastructure projects.
Council President Betty Riley moved and the council voted 4–1 to allow Officer Andrew Williams to take a Middletown Police Department vehicle home after each work shift; Bill Harrison seconded and Gary Kendall cast the lone dissenting vote. The council unanimously approved a $1,990.05 purchase from Signal Ten technologies for a console to be installed in the new police truck, with the Town Marshall authorized to complete the purchase.
On public-works matters the council unanimously authorized the Utilities Superintendent to buy new street signs for all town intersections and agreed to remove the intermediate layer of asphalt from the planned paving of Locust Street between Dietrich Park and 5th Street as part of the 5th Street Storm Sewer Project. The council also unanimously approved using funds from a county food & beverage grant for sidewalk replacement and exterior painting at the Civic Center.
The council approved the fifth payment from the SRF 5th Street Project loan to 3‑D Company, Inc. for $320,602.99, directing that 10 percent of the payment go into a retainage account. Norm Purdue moved the payment; the motion passed unanimously.
Administratively, the council unanimously authorized the Clerk-Treasurer to enter into a lease with Ricoh for business copiers for the utility office and police department.
The meeting concluded after a public hearing on a proposed annexation of the Middletown Medical Clinic property on North 5th Street drew no public comment.
The council adjourned with no additional business.
