Woodfin
New-look board moves ahead on project
Lisa McDaris, left, and Sarah Gassaway listen to Joe Martin during their first meeting.
By Matt Tate
(Nov. 16). placement water lines on Riverside from Broadway Street to the Met- sociated costs. The plan is to move
New members Lisa McDaris and Drive. ropolitan Sewer District offices on the lines from the west side of the
Some fresh blood on the Wood- Sarah Gassaway agreed with board Woodfin Sanitary Water and Sew- Riverside Drive. Martin feels, how- road near the French Broad River to
fin Water Board pumped some life holdover Keith Snyder in going er District Director Joe Martin said ever, that the district may receive a the east side.
in a long-gestating project Monday forward with a bid process for re- the lines are in sore need of replac- fair offer in line with the budgeted In other news, the board approved
ing. The district applied for stimulus amount because of the downed a holiday bonus pay of 1 percent of
funds to help with the shovel-ready economy. employees’ yearly salary. McDaris
project, but the prospects of receiv- “I think there are prices out there supported a gainsharing program
ing funds are dim, Martin said. we will never see again,” he said. for district employees, an initia-
The board set aside $862,000 in The district will spend $30,000 tive carried over from the previous
this year’s budget to be applied with for the bid process, $25,000 of board.
stimulus funds to replace the lines which is applied to engineering-as- The water tank at Baird Cove
Road is scheduled to come online
during the first quarter of 2010. The
Sisters McMullen
water will be pumped from a split
in the reservoir line at Herron Cove
Road in Weaverville to fill the new
tank. The tank will service, among
heads to Asheville
other areas, the district’s growing
north end and eliminate the need
for a pump station on Merrimon
Avenue, saving the district about
The Sisters McMullen is one $30,000 a year in electricity costs,
By Matt Tate
of several businesses in the newly Martin said.
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14 THE TRIBUNE - November 19 - November 25, 2009
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