Cheney City Council approves emergency well repair one-year-old pump, as well as residential street work funds

By BECKY THOMAS

Staff Reporter

Cheney City Council approved an emergency well repair on a city well with a failed pump, barely a year after the pump was replaced in a similar emergency repair.

At its Aug. 9 meeting, the council approved a $25,000 contract with Specialty Pump, which completed the repair July 29. Public Works director Todd Ableman said his staff was waiting to hear if the warranty for the original pump, also installed by Specialty Pump in August 2010, was still valid.

“We're hoping to get all of that money back,” he said.

The council approved another Public Works-related resolution at the meeting, this one to award a contract for residential street work funded by a Community Development Block Grant. The council awarded the $450,000 contract to Shamrock Paving. North Eighth Street will be paved from Elm Street to Sunset Drive, with water main replacement on North Eighth from Elm to Ash streets and drainage improvements at the North Third and Oakland streets.

While street work is normally completed by late summer, the city had not yet received the CDBG funding due to a delay from the federal government.

“We don't have the money in hand,” Ableman said, adding that work will begin once the contractor can be paid.

The council awarded another paving contract, this time to Inland Asphalt for their $23,900 bid for parking lot paving at the recently completed Wren Pierson Building.

Also at the meeting, the council approved a public records policy for the city, which gives guidelines for the city's public records distribution and procedures. The policy would be posted on the newly updated city website, http://www.cityofcheney.org.

Becky Thomas can be reached at [email protected].