Crossville officials approved a $116,000 sewer line replacement during a special called meeting Friday.
Director of Engineering Tim Begley said the sewer project involves 450 feet of line located in front of the old winery where a new convenience store will open. Begley said the city opted to use enterprise funds for the work rather than federal relief money to avoid specific regulatory requirements.
“We found that the line had been damaged in four locations and was not in service anymore,” Begley said, “And that line needs to be replaced and relocated because of Weigel’s. Also, in between creating the plans and bidding the project, we have a parking lot that was paved out on Interchange that the sewer line is going through and we have quite a bit of additional asphalt for going through the project .”
In other business, Council accepted a grant increase to $1 million for the local Greenway project. The Community Development Block Grant for the Greenway project was increased from $630,000. City Manager Valerie Hale said the additional funding significantly reduces the local match required from the city.
“Our match is reduced,” Hale said. “We’re like at $100,000 where originally we were at three something.”
Hale said the council also approved a contract amendment for a Tennessee Department of Transportation traffic signal project at the intersection of West and Fourth Avenue.
“We’ve been working on this actually since 2017 when I submitted the initial application,” Hale said. “And we use our STP money, which is the federal highway money that we get through the state.”
Hale said while the total cost of the traffic signal project has risen since 2017, the state provided additional funding to help cover the increase. Hale said the remaining cost for the city to address is approximately $300,000.
“This project originally started out to be an ARPA project and as we divided up all the projects with the ARPA money, we, we left this one out so we wouldn’t have to follow the ARPA—ARPA rules,” Begley said.