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Monday, April 6, 2020

Crossville City Council to "Meet" using Zoom with live audio for citizens to listen


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.

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