Emergency waterline repairs needed south of the hospital and radiating out from Veater Street are a year away. Final design and going out to bid will take that long. The fix will replace 17 percent of the city's water pipes.
It's a good thing students are on summer break. The fancy new roundabouts and the city's required relocation of its water and sewer pipes may be the source of pressure problems, or it could be that cluster of leaks resulting from the massive water leak on Arrowhead Street.
Turtleback Mountain Resort and the Sierra County Arts Council Art Show & Sale will take place June 21st, 22nd & 23rd featuring 50 different local artists.
Oh for reality-based leadership instead of hunkydoryism. Elected officials bought too much new hospital, evidently expecting more people would move here and pay more in property taxes and gross receipts taxes--the revenue sources expected to pay off the loan. It wasn't enough then and it isn't enough now.
The Sierra County Commission is trying to get the question of a flood control taxing district on the Nov. 5 ballot without telling the people it is a taxing district.
Turtleback Mountain Resort in Elephant Butte will be hosting a regional art show & sale in late June that you won't want to miss. See the works of 50 local artists representing more than a dozen TorC galleries all in one place.
The city kept good books and kept spending down last fiscal year, according to the audit, which recently became public. Audit results are usually released in February, about eight months after the fiscal year ends. Blame the Housing Authority for the lateness of this audit.
T or C property taxes were supposed to more than double after citizens approved $3-million in general obligation bond debt for water, wastewater and road projects at the November 2023 ballot box. The state's Taxation and Revenue Department says it never got the word.
