By Jim Young / jimyoungreporter@gmail.com
May 12, 2008 04:25 pm
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The Crossville City Council faces a lengthy agenda for their regular meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m. including a long list of bids for purchases during the coming fiscal year as well as discussions of the Cumberland Cove water contract, the Crossville skate park and the Big South Fork Outdoor Recreation Visitor Center.
The meeting gets under way with a public hearing at 5:45 p.m. on the annexation and plan of services for a lot on Meadoview Lane. The third and final reading of the annexation is on the agenda under the consent agenda.
This meeting will be the first regular council meeting for the new city manager Ted Meadows who has less then 10 days on the job by the time of the meeting.
The council's agenda for the meeting takes up almost three full sheets of legal sized paper with two full pages of that for the consent agenda. The consent agenda includes the long list of annual bid approvals for purchases to start in July 2008 and a long list of budget amendment ordinance readings. In addition, several road closings for events including the annual Depot Days celebration are up for council consideration.
The matter of the Cumberland Cove water contract comes up again near the end of the agenda and the discussion will be introduced by mayor pro-tem Boyd Wyatt. Wyatt and Councilman Carl Duer both voted against the matter at last month's council meeting but the remaining three council members approved the contract that could eventually add a large group of customers to the city's water system with the construction of water lines into Cumberland Cove.
It is unclear what Wyatt's discussion will center around. He had previously expressed his concern about the water supply being adequate after last years drought problems and over the payments that are to come from the Cumberland Cove Property Owners Association.
The council will also hear information about potential design and cost figures for the completion of the new stake park at Crossville Centennial Recreational Park. The concrete base has been completed and now the park needs items to allow skaters to use for jumps and tricks. Hill will also update the council on the Golf Capital of Tennessee Women's Open golf tournament that the city is sponsoring.
The council will consider a request from the county mayor Brock Hill that the city provide sewer and water service infrastructure to the Big South Fork outdoor recreation visitor center to be built at the I-40 Genesis Road interchange. The project is being funded through two grants including one from the federal government to purchase the land near Stonehaus Winery and prepare the site. Another grant from the Tennessee Department of Transportation will pay for construction of the 4000 square foot building.
The estimate for the cost of the infrastructure needed for water and sewer is $45,000 and a letter signed by County Mayor Hill and Pepe Perron, chairman of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, asks the city to provide it.
Other items on the city's agenda include the reappointment of Bob Mitchell to the Crossville Housing Authority board, a discussion of the CCHS Ms. Nettie renovation project, and presentations to the SMHS Lady Panthers and about the Crossville Arts Council mural project.
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