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Burlingame City Council
Steps taken to improve water reliability
Gabe Faimon
Reporter
BURLINGAME—Part of Burlingame’s ongoing water system
improvement project involves examination of opportunity for increasing
reliability of the system.
LaVene Brenden, representative of Bartlett & West, Inc., the
engineering firm for the project, outlined two features for Burlingame
City Council’s consideration Monday night.
Brenden said the pumping station near state Highway 31 on the northwest
side of Osage City presented significant opportunity for increasing
system reliability. One improvement involves relocation of a valve
on the line carrying treated water into the pumping station. A second
improvement involves installation of an electronic monitoring system
that would automatically alert the city of Burlingame whenever a
major malfunction occurred at the pumping station.
“Together, both features would substantially reduce the chance
of an undetected malfunction at the pumping station, similar to
the malfunction when a passerby reported that a large amount of
water was in the ditch by the pumping station,” Brenden said.
“That malfunction resulted in the loss of 400,000 gallons
of water.”
After several questions and discussion between council members and
Brenden, the council approved a change order providing for both
improvements.
In other discussion, the council adopted an ordinance to update
the city’s standard traffic laws. The ordinance specifically
authorizes operation of micro-utility trucks within the city limits,
provides a definition of a micro-utility truck, specifies requirements
for operation of such a vehicle and repeals a section of the traffic
ordinance.
In other business, the council:
• repealed a previously approved resolution and replaced it
with an ordinance to allow the city to enact the voter-approved
one percent sales tax increase.
• approved the bid by Kartsonis Pool & Aquatic Service
for winterizing the swimming pool.
• directed auditor Stephen Connell to make appropriate corrections
to the budget review.
• approved posting notice of a vacancy for a part-time clerk
in city hall.
• approved a Christmas bonus for all employees (except library
staff), providing $125 for each full-time employee, $75 for each
part-time employee and $125 for a volunteer who, for the year, has
provided more than 250 volunteer hours of service to the police
department.
• to facilitate year-end closing, scheduled a special meeting
for 5 p.m. Dec. 29. |
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