Comments on: Century Approves $28K Parts Purchase To Fix Sewage Plant, Restore Capacity

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:57:37 +0000

Where is the money that was supposed to fund this running of the facility go to in all these years?
Oh, I forgot……This is Century

By: gj

gj — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:48:07 +0000

They had the money but it all went to support the Gas fund and General Fund

By: David

David — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:03:07 +0000

Having town staff install the parts is a good move. Bidding out the entire fix (parts + labor) would have likely been a significantly higher cost.

By: Bob C.

Bob C. — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:22:31 +0000

@ ensley boy

Capital Outlay money comes from taxes and other incomes to governments.
The Annual Budgeting process determine how much available funding will go toward Capital Outlay.
Funds in Capital Outlay are used for maintenance of facilities, in this case repair to the sewage system. Also normal upkeep such as painting, building, new structures, etc.
Good planning prepares for ongoing maintenance by setting a calendar which may be over several years with a specific expenditure in mind. That would include replacing trucks, vehicles, computers, and such. Also, long term projects such as repairing the 1/3 of the sewage system each 3 or 4 years on a rotating basis to keep all functioning properly.

By: Rasheed Jackson

Rasheed Jackson — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:55:59 +0000

The sewage plant should have been self supporting and any repairs needed should have been funded from the fees collected from the users. All equipment will fail and will wear out with time. The city should have had a maintenance plan set up and funded to cover the cost of repairs and replacement of equipment.
Poor planning produces ill fruit!!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:42:42 +0000

Sludge is kinda like waste that just wont move out of the way. Seems to be an ongoing problem in Century.

By: Oversight

Oversight — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:16:35 +0000

ensley boy… Government money or “outlay money” comes from taxes, taxes, ever more and more glorious taxes!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:34:17 +0000

To bad these repairs can’t get rid of the crap in the Mayor’s office and city council!!!

By: Wayne J

Wayne J — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:25:04 +0000

Our sewer system was built to take care of a small town with little room for growth. When you do a trade out like loosing the school sewerage and then replacing with new housing is the best that can happen in keeping with the size of the system. Again, some room for growth. The system must be kept operating as designed. As there are too many back ups especially in heavy rains mostly because too many manholes are in ditches and other low places that need to be addressed and corrected. Century how has a good man over the sewer system and see some of these problems. Work with him Century to get the system up and running replacing some of the Yahoos you had in the past.

By: ensley boy

ensley boy — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:33:25 +0000

Where does capital outlay money come from?