By Charla Wurm-Adams
cwurm@wbcowqel.com

The Public and Lands and Buildings and Finance committees of the Bucyrus City Council were busy going over their shopping lists Monday evening. A water tank, lawn mowers and a garbage truck were at the top of that list.

A tank at the Waste Water Treatment plant was approved for repair at a cost of $39,000 with the contract going to Studer-Obringer in New Washington. The budget had allowed a cost of $50,000. Service/Safety Director Jeff Wagner explained.

“Well, it’s got a concrete cap on top of the bricks all the way around it,” Wagner said. “Over the course of years of being used, it just deteriorated and has fallen apart. In order to fix it, we have to drain the tank and they have to build scaffolding on the inside and the outside to form it to re-pour the cap. So, that’s why it’s a pretty specialty job and not many people will do it.”

Plans are to start the repair process this summer. It is not known how long the whole project will take to complete.

The city is in the mowing business and that takes equipment. Currently the city has 13 properties it owns and is responsible for mowing.

The committees also approved repair of one mower tractor by Wyandot Implement at a cost of approximately $20,000. That repair is for the transmission. Also approved was the purchase of a mower for the reservoirs. The city will get a Case International 85C Farmall from Burkhart’s.

Wagner explained it won’t be a stock tractor.

“It’s used for at the reservoirs, it has a flail mower on the side and it also has a rear mower. It has to be specialty made so it will have low gravity and it won’t slide down the embankments of the reservoirs we have for the driver to be safe,” Wagner said. “The mower we had was from 1982. We can’t get parts for it anymore so it was time to order a new one and actually the size mower we want comes out of Italy, we had to order it.”

That will cost $69,000. Wagner applied with NJPA to save 30 percent on the total cost.

Finally, approval was given to purchase a chassis and cab for a new garbage truck at a cost of $86,500.