Crossville Council May Agenda looks at accepting BOE sewer lines, CCHS drainage Project funding and Airport engineering.

The Crossville City Council holds its regular May meeting Tuesday, May 8 and the agenda could be a fairly short one.

Crossville City Council members

The meeting of the audit committee will be held at 5:15 followed by a meeting of the beer board to consider a beer license for Mr. Zips at 5:45 PM and the regular agenda starts at 6 PM.

During the council's work session held April 30, the members discussed items, most of which will be decided under the consent agenda of the regular agenda, including agreements to take over the three Board of Education (BOE) sewer lines. City manager Greg Wood explained that one of the changes that will happen under the new agreements is that the schools will start paying the outside city limits rates that are higher than they had been paying when they maintained the lines themselves. City Attorney Will Ridley said the BOE had already approved the agreements. Ridley also pointed out that the South Cumberland Utility District also had to approve the agreement for the Brown Elementary School line but he added he understood there was no problem with that and he expected it would be approved at the utility district's next meeting.

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Other items discussed at the work session and under the consent agenda will name the Eastern Bluebird as the official bird of the city of Crossville. A petition was presented to the city requesting the action and it was mentioned that the state president of the Eastern Bluebird Association lives here.

An application to the Boyd Foundation for funds to improve the Crossville Dog Park is also expected to be approved. The Boyd Foundation is a new funder under the control of current Tennessee Republican Gubernatorial candidate Randy Boyd and his wife. Council is also expected to approve a contract for the engineering of the Crossville Memorial airport runway and taxiway sealing and striping project and approval of a Department of Justice grant to help pay for police protective vests.

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Council will also consider a request from the Board of Education for reimbursement for part of the CCHS drainage project. The total project is $435,000 and parts of the project requested for reimbursement by the city include the storm inlet structure and the mainline storm sewer are broken out separately at $10,000 and $133,000.

The city's director of engineering Tim Begley has recommended the city reimburse the schools for the inlet structure as the city's drainage pipe connects to one side and the schools to the other side. In addition, it is unclear who owns the current structure that is partly in the city's right of way plus the current grate is substandard and would not support a vehicle if one left the roadway Begley said there could be a liability to the city. The discussion at the work session did not indicate the council would reimburse the higher amount for the drainage line that was entirely on the CCHS property.  

Council to hold Work Session Monday due to Election Day to discuss BOE sewer lines and Bluebirds and Sunday Liquor Sales.

With election day on Tuesday, the Crossville city council will hold their monthly work session a day early on Monday, April 30 and start work in earnest on the 2018-19 fiscal year budget.

The work session starts at 5 PM and will be in the third-floor conference room at Crossville city hall.

The final item on the agenda is the presentation of the budget by city manager Greg Wood. While staff has been working on the document for a number of weeks, where the budget stands currently has not been made public yet.

Crossville City Council Members, City Attorney 

and City Manager. L-R Will Ridley, Danny Wyatt

Pamala Harris, Mayor James Mayberry, J.H. Graham

and Greg Wood

Other items for discussion on the work session agenda include contract agreement modifications between the city and the Cumberland County Board of Education (BOE) concerning sewer lines for North, South and Brown Elementary schools. The new agreements would transfer ownership, control and the responsibility for maintenance of the lines to the city. The BOE has requested that the city take over the lines.

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Council will also consider a request from the director of schools to help pay for the drainage project for the Cumberland County High School football field and track that has been a problem for many years. The total project is $435,000 and parts of the project including the storm inlet structure and the mainline storm sewer are broken out separately at $10,000 and $133,000.

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The city's director of engineering recommends the city reimburse the schools for the inlet structure as the city's pipe connects to one side and the schools to the other side. In addition, it is unclear who owns the current structure that is partly in the right of way and the grate is substandard and would not support a vehicle if one left the roadway and that could be considered a city liability.

Council will also consider a request received to name the Eastern Bluebird as the city bird. A petition has been submitted to the city requesting that the bird be designated as the official bird of the city.

Eastern Bluebird

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Council will consider the engineering contract for the sealing and striping of the Crossville Memorial Airport runway and taxiway. The cost of the contract is on a TDOT grant with the city's portion fiver percent of the cost.

Council will also consider a grant application to the Department of Justice to fund 50 percent of the cost of police vests for the department.

Council will consider a change to the city's liquor ordinance to allow for sales on Sunday as has been recently approved by the state.   

Crossville City Council Votes to seek More Raw Water Supply and narrowly OKs accepting BOE Sewer Lines

During the February Crossville city council meeting, the council approved moving forward with a program to seek to increase the raw water supply as recommended by engineering firm J. R. Wauford.

Councilman J.H. Graham makes a point during the council's

February regular meeting. 

In addition, a split council approved moving forward with accepting sewer lines from the Cumberland County Board of Education.

Wauford engineer Greg Davenport presented a report to the council during the February work session that listed 4 potential options and recommended that the city attempt to set up a meeting with the US Army Corps of Engineers and other regulators to discuss next steps.

Councilman J. H. Graham made the motion to move forward and his motion was supported by Councilman Danny Wyatt.

Council member Pamala Harris pointed out, “The benefits of doing this are knowing which direction to move toward as far as our future water supply. I think it is good for the public to know that we're looking out for our future.”

The motion to move forward was unanimously approved.

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There was less council agreement on the request from the county Board of Education for the city to take over three sections of sewer lines that serve North School, South School and Brown Elementary.

The motion to accept the request from the BOE was made by Mr. Graham and the second was made by Ms. Harris.

Mayor Mayberry said he had some concerns, mainly about the line from Brown Elementary including the city's utility district owning a line that runs through the middle of another (South Cumberland) utility district. He added that he was not clear what was involved in taking responsibility for the line and what additional manpower or expense would be required. Mayberry also mentioned future expenses and depreciation that would have to be budgeted for future replacement adding, “It seems like a losing proposition.”

Mayberry also said he felt it was too early to even look at inspecting the line as council member Harris suggested and he wanted to know about the legalities of the action but with the city attorney out with the flu he was not present to answer the Mayor's questions.

“I'm not going to vote to support this not knowing all the facts,” explained Mayor Mayberry.

Councilman Wyatt called on the city engineer Tim Begley for some additional information and Begley said the line to South was about 19 years old, the line to Brown is about 10 to 12 years old. Begley explained that the line to Brown was a “gray water” line and could not have a grinder pump attached to it. According to Begley, the school maintenance department reported only one break to the Brown line they knew of and it involved a car running off the road. He added that lead him to believe that the line could be a bit shallow in some places.

As the city has annexed additional area along Spruce Loop, they have taken over 300 to 400 feet of the line and haven't had any problems with it.

Mr. Graham commented to Mayor Mayberry's concern, pointing out that South Cumberland Utility has stated a number of times that they do not want to be in the sewer business.

Graham responded to another of Mayberry's questions about the future use of the line and if a pump station would be needed if more customers hooked up to the line and Graham said he felt a pump station would be needed. Graham also mentioned another possible line in the future along Dunbar Road but that would depend on the number of future customers.

When the vote on the measure was taken, Council members Graham and Wyatt voted in favor, Ms. Harris passed on the first round vote and councilman Scot Shanks said he was in favor but felt there were still things the city did not know. Shanks voted no “for now.” Mayor Mayberry also voted no and the attention returned to Ms. Harris for the deciding vote. After a brief pause, Harris voted “aye and the motion was approved.