With stay at home orders in place for
Tennessee, the business of the City of Crossville must continue and
Crossville City Council meetings will continue using Zoom and
citizens will be able to listen in to the meetings live or hear them
later.
File photo by Jim Young with logo added.
The City Council has a work session set
for Tuesday, April 7 at 5 PM and the regular Council meeting at 6 PM
on April 14. Both these meeting will be conducted via the Zoom
meeting program that has become very popular in the time of social
distancing due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
Items up for discussion on the work
session agenda includes discussion of the possible provision of sewer
service to the Golf Court Town Homes at Tansi. A plan has been
developed for the townhomes by city staff to provide infrastructure
but no future capacity for any other entities.
Information released with the agenda
included the following:
The HOA would pay for and maintain a
low-pressure pump system on their property. The City would not
maintain this system because it would meet the City’s definition of
commercial use. The cost of this onsite system is estimated to be
$209,400.
The $209,400 will be contracted out and
paid directly by the HOA because they will own these improvements.
Offsite improvements which will be
owned by the City, include a grey water booster pump, tank and other
incidental items at an estimated cost of $200,490.
The offsite improvement cost of
$200,490 will be charged as a special sewer tap fee with a 2%
interest rate amortized over ten years and charged monthly at an
amount of $61.49 per month. The average monthly sewer charge for a
usage of 3,000 gallons is $33.93 (Outside City Rates) plus the
monthly payment for the special sewer tap fee of $61.49 gives a total
monthly sewer cost per unit of $95.42 for 120 months. At the end of
120 monthly payments the monthly sewer cost would be for the sewer
only.
Other fees to be paid to the City
include one commercial tap fee of $2,000, multi-unit add-on fee at
$1,450 and a capacity fee of $30,000. The capacity fee has never been
charged by the City. It is the capital cost of the capacity at the
sewer plant. This cost is based off of $10 per gallon and each
residence is estimated to utilize 100 gallons a day. The total of
these fees (paid to the City) is $33,450.
The total cost to the HOA is
$443,340.00, which equates out to a cost of $14,778 per unit.
Action on the proposal could be taken
at the council meeting on April 14.
Other items to be discussed include
work on masonry at the Palace Theatre, tree harvesting contracts at
Chestnut Hill landfill and the Crossville Memorial Airport.
Purchases to be discussed include police uniforms and equipment and
traffic light control for the Elmore Rd and Livingston Rd
intersection.
A discussion of possible refinancing of
the city's debt has been discussed for the last several months and is
also on the work session agenda.
