A slow news week

Compared to the last few weeks, this was a really slow news week. Even Monday night's City Council agenda is thin.

One thing they will be taking up again is OT for sewer personnel. I'm not sure exactly why the council voted to table it at the last meeting (it's not as if it hadn't already accrued), but I guess it was a message.

Not sure to who (whom?), but I would guess the mayor and/or DPS Director Brendan O'Regan.

Everyone still seems all hopped up on getting either CDM (who designed the water/sewer project) or AIRVAC (manufacturer of the vacuum sewer system) to reimburse the city for the $49,500 in OT for issues around freezing in the sewer pits.

I don't know why, since both the mayor and O'Regan have said repeatedly that the 2 companies are not inclined to do any such thing.

I think everyone has learned a valuable - and somewhat expensive - lesson and things will be better now.

Here's hoping that sewer crews got adequate training from AIRVAC - that which was included in the cost of the system - and that nobody is trying to extort more money from the city under the guise of, "Oh, your crews need more training."

That would not be very nice now would it?