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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 2000
Page
7
Tonight partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms and a low around 75. South wind 10 to 20 mph. Thursday will be hot and humid with sunny conditions and a high near 95 to 100. For more weather details, see page a.
Independence Day festivities in Ottawa featured the Jaycees fireworks show funded by a 2500 city grant, drawing families to view from trucks and lawns. City Band performances opened the evening and honored veterans, while longtime Music Man Walter Butler and band director Brent Wheeler drew praise before Wheeler’s final Ottawa show.
Ottawa City Commissioners opened the budget process for next year. City Manager Scott Lambers proposed a budget near current mill rates with a two percent cost of living raise and up to three percent merit pay, plus a seven percent special bonus for long term staff. They consider funding for cemetery expansion, storm sewer upgrades, housing studies, IT study, and a 400000 sewage project to spur development, with July meetings planned.
The Herald News reports mechanical failures at the city sewage plant raise costs and risk. A sunken digester basin cap and a broken RBC shaft threaten the aging system of eight units, with seven usable. Utilities director Jim Bradley notes the shaft failure compounds delays as the city faces another $85,000 bill and weighs repairs versus a new plant planned within eight years.
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