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AVILLA — The Avilla Town Council Wednesday OK’d Tanner Consulting’s proposal to provide engineering plans for improvements to its wastewater treatment plant to the tune of $187,000.
The hazard pay was tied to the coronavirus pandemic.
âCOVID is a big deal for us,â Town Marshal Glen Wills, who made the pitch for the bonus, said. âOur officers are at a lot of risk.â
Wills also asked for an extension of the COVID policy which allowed supervisors to send employees home with COVID if they believed themselves to have been exposed to the virus.
Wills gave the example of one of his employees who thought he had been exposed to the virus. The employee called Wills and asked what they should do. If the employee had come to work and later discovered he was positive for the virus, the entire police department building would have required an expensive deep cleaning, Wills told the council.
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The news made what has been a COVID-19 year more palatable.
âWe got the best news weâve received all year,â Council President Vicki Jellison said. âThat is very, very good news for the town.â
The town has three projects it will receive state assistance on:
⢠Paving work on East Hazel Street from South Orange Street to South First Street, with a total projected cost of $748,300;
⢠Paving and sidewalk work on South Hickory Street from East Washington Street to East South Street, $118,300; and
⢠ADA-compliant intersection at West Highland and North York Street, $95,900.
The state could have awarded all three projects, any combination of them or none of the projects at all. Albion got everything it asked for.