Posts Tagged ‘West Fork Water Commission’
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West Fork Water Commission Down the Drain?
0November 30, 2014 by Steve Winkler
-By Observer Staff- Did the city council just quietly dissolve the 40-year-old water commission? During a hearing on Nov. 24, the council passed an ordinance authorizing the issuance of a $350,000 revenue bond to pay for the “planning and design costs, other preliminary expenses and bond issuance costs.” Detailed in more than ten pages, Ordinance 441 is a temporary bond that will be folded into a permanent bond to pay for construction of a sewer line from West Fork to Fayetteville. The permanent bond will be for $5,8000,000. The city needs the funds from the temporary bond to satisfy requirements for a $1.2 million grant. But it’s the language buried throughout the ordinance that seems to indicate the dissolution of the water commission entirely, or at the very least, the transfer of its main duties to the city as a whole.
Read More...Category West Fork | Tags: bonds, ordinance 441, West Fork Water Commission
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Stand Up and Step Aside
0May 8, 2012 by Steve Winkler
It’s time for West Fork’s Water and Wastewater Utility Commission Chair Virgil Blackmon to step down. Under his leadership the commission has moved from being cited and fined for violation of the Freedom of Information laws to actually being unable to state with any certainty how many members are even on the Commission.
Read More...Category Editorials, Opinion | Tags: editorial, Virgil Blackmon, Water Commission, West Fork, West Fork Water Commission
