By J. Miles Layton
FAIRMONT — City council jockeyed with a couple of ordinances so the city would be in the pole position to get more federal dollars to pay for millions of dollars in repairs and improvements to the water-treatment plant.
City Hall also may be considering whether to take action to close a business in the Fourth Street area.
Council approved the second of three readings of an ordinance at Tuesday’s meeting authorizing the issuance of a series of bonds to cover the cost of the $12.1 million corrective action plan to permanently fix the city’s water-treatment plant.
Council also approved the first reading of a separate bond ordinance, which will allow the city to receive an additional $700,000 in stimulus money from the Bureau of Public Health. Half of that amount — roughly $350,000 — will be forgivable while the remaining $350,000 would be a 30-year note with zero percent interest.
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