Pierceton Town Council Introduces Bond Ordinance For Sewage Project
At its Jan. 12 meeting, the Pierceton Town Council introduced an ordinance that would allow the town to issue bonds for the purpose of funding a sewage project.
The ordinance describes the sewage project as, “repairs and improvements to the sewage collection systems with cured-in-place pipe, active service lateral reinstatement, point repairs, interior manhole sealing and related repairs and improvements.”
Should the ordinance pass, the town would issue and sell sewage bonds up to $3,505,000.
A public hearing regarding the ordinance is planned for the next town council meeting at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8. The council made it clear that the sewer repairs and bond issuance is unrelated to sewer rate increase adopted at the council’s December 2014 meeting.
Also at the meeting, Pierceton Town Marshall Tim Sammons brought up the idea of body cams for Pierceton police. “That seems to be a trend, reducing liability,” he said. “On our side it’d be a fairly inexpensive investment.”
Some police agencies in Indiana have already tried or adopted body cams. Late last year, Indianapolis Metro Police Department outfitted 12 officers with body cams for a 60 day trial period, and Syracuse Police Department purchased 10 body cams for its officers.
No action was taken regarding PPD equipping its officers with body cams. Sammons stated he would research them further. He didn’t think it would be a very costly purchase, as the department is relatively small.