Council OKs Drainage Project Bid

FARMINGTON — A drainage project planned by the city will improve Double Springs Road in Farmington from Wolf Lane to past the duplexes on the east side of the street.

Farmington City Council approved a request Monday to

advertise for bids for the project with an estimated cost of $100,000.

“We’ve needed this since I started here in ’08,” said Floyd Shelley, public works director. “We’ve had a lot of erosion. The ditch is right at the edge of the road and there is no shoulder.”

Police Chief Brian Hubbard said cars slide into the deep ditches. The ditch is so steep, Hubbard said, that tow trucks have a hard time pulling a vehicle out of the ditch.

“Every slick spell we have, cars are in it,” Shelley said.

The project calls for rebuilding the ditch, installing a pipe to help with drainage and building a shoulder along that part of the road. Shelley said work would not start until school dismisses for the summer. He warned travel on the road would not be easy during construction.

In other action, the Council adopted its annual resolution to amend the 2015 yearend budget to reflect actual income and expenses.

For 2015, the city projected to receive $ 3.1 million in revenue for its general fund, street department and library. Year-end figures show the city received $3.8 million in revenue.

Under expenditures, the amended budget shows $2.9 million for the general fund, $744,000 for the street department and $183,000 for the library.

Jimmy Story, chief financial officer, said he was able to transfer $373,352 to the city’s general reserve fund, based on increased revenue in 2015 and department heads staying within their budgets. The reserve fund now has a balance of almost $2.8 million.

The Council approved Game Time Concessions as the new concessionaire for the Farmington Sports Complex. Game Time already provides concessions for all sports in Greenland and comes with a good recommendation, said Jenna Swain with the city. Farmington receives 10 percent of gross profits, per the agreement with the group.