OTTUMWA —
Wapello County’s tower project is moving along.
At the Wapello County Board of Supervisors’ meeting today, the supervisors will consider a memorandum of understanding between the county and the county’s E911 Service Board.
“The memorandum has to do with the purchase of the tower,” said Supervisor Greg Kenning. “It will be purchased by the county but run by the 911 board.”
The E911 Service Board includes all emergency agencies in town, such as police, fire, sheriff, ambulance services and secondary roads.
“There could be as many as 11 groups using that tower service,” Kenning said.
The board will set the dates for two upcoming public hearings, one regarding the plans, specifications and form of contract for the tower project, and the other for the grading and paving of Rock Bluff Road.
“It should be started by next spring,” Kenning said of the Rock Bluff Road grading and paving. “This was part of our proposal when we did the Chillicothe Bridge.”
The project would raise the level of the road to act as more of a flood barrier.
“The present road, often when we have high water in the area, is one of the areas that seems to be flooded over and over again,” Kenning said. “We would raise the road and pave it. With this proposal, we would pave the rest of that road to the Chillicothe Bridge.”
The board will also discuss renting the county home cropland for the 2013 crop season to Brad Yeager.
“Yeager is currently renting that land,” Kenning said. “Every year we have somebody give us a proposal from renting that land.”
The supervisors will meet at 9:30 a.m. today in the third-floor boardroom at the courthouse.
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