In Butler City Council news…Butler has received over 87 thousand dollars, resulting from a nationwide settlement of two class action lawsuits involving atrazine that has been found in water at over a thousand water providers all over the U.S. This comes from millions of pounds of atrazine that’s sprayed on corn and other row crops each year, which runs off into rivers and streams that supply drinking water to community water systems like ours.
The money will help reimburse water systems for the expense of removing atrazine from drinking water in those cities. The money can be used however the cities want to use it. City Administrator Mark Ar-buth-not says Butler will be put on reserve for future replacement of water filters at the water plant. Of course, the atrazine has always been filtered out of our drinking water. The City didn’t want for a reimbursement to take care of the problem!
In other Butler Council news, there has been more discussion on the new electric transmission line that will go out into the West Butler area. It will be about one-point-two miles of power line, running north from Butler’s power plant, then west through the industrial park, then crossing over I-49 (highway 71) and will intersect a KAMO line, over to the west side. It’s not an overnight thing, however…the Council is still waiting for information from the engineers…we’ll have more later on that.
And the Butler City Council is still having meetings concerning the city budget, with the new fiscal year coming up in April. Budgets are important when you’re talking millions of dollars, so our council doesn’t take this lightly. Meanwhile, we never hear anything from Washington on a budget for the nation, and we’re talking trillions of our taxpayer dollars.
Action continues toward Butler’s Solar Farm. It will be on a 12-point-four acre tract of land, located west of the spec building property. More on that as studies continue.
The state of Missouri is wanting a one cent general sales tax, to provide fro road improvements. This is a state-wide thing and would be voted on by Missouri citizens. They’d like for this to be done by 2015. We’ll keep you posted.
An agreement has been reached between Butler and the MC Company concerning the Solar Farm…
And the Butler City Council passed a resolution for sale of city property to MC Power for that Solar Farm.
And that’s the latest from the Butler Council. It meets each first and Third, Tuesday at seven p.m. at City Hall. The public is welcome to attend, but anyone wishing to speak on a subject should advise City Hall, so it can be put on the agenda.
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