WATERTOWN — After working on plans for a year, the city failed to get any contractors to bid on the long-awaited $3.7 million downtown streetscape project.
Year nine students from a Catholic girls school were furious after being banned from gathering around their favourite fig tree at lunchtime - but the school says the rule was necessary to teach the girls about respect .
The students from St Rita s College in Clayfield, in Brisbane s inner north, arrived at their regular lunch spot on Tuesday to find the entire area taped off until until further notice.
Daily Mail Australia was told up to 180 year nine students regularly sit around the tree before school and during lunch - and they were extremely upset by the school s decision.
A group of year nine students have been left outraged after they were told they could no longer sit at a group of benches under a beloved tree
WATERTOWN â The city is forgoing a traditional bidding process to procure a $1.4 million new ladder truck for the fire department.
Instead of seeking multiple bids to weigh them against each other, the city is using a purchasing co-op to buy the next aerial truck.
City Manager Kenneth A. Mix said the co-op will allow the city to avoid the tedious task of preparing a bid to buy the vehicle. Traditionally a municipality would accept multiple bids for a purchase and weigh them against each other, a process that is public and allows taxpayers to understand the options.
The new ladder truck would replace an E-One aerial that has been in operation since 1986. The 2004 Pierce ladder truck would then be used as a backup. The purchase is included in the cityâs 2020-21 capital budget.