Bluffton council will meet in a rare Wednesday night meeting this week. The Labor Day holiday forced the move in the council calendar. Among agenda items include the following update on several village projects from Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator:

THE COUNCIL AGENDA IS IN AN ATTACHMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

Waterline Projects
The Village now has the financial agreements in hand from the Ohio Public Works Department for two water main replacement projects. The Village will be receiving grant  From the OPWC for an amount not to exceed $113,100 for the Kibler Street Water Main Replacement project (engineer's estimate of $226,200) and a loan for the Garmatter Street Water Main Replacement not to exceed $135,026 (engineer's estimate of $270,053). Mehaffie advised the engineers and the village will be placing the projects out to bid immediately with a scheduled bid opening date of Friday, Sept. 26.

Augsburger Path Project
Mehaffie reports that the village received some good news from ODOT concerning the Augsburger Path Project. The Central Office's OES representatives have determined that, since the project is an ODOT-Let project then ODOT is able to use their credits to cover the mitigation needs of the project. Matt Rosebrock from the District 2 office will be forwarding the village an updated project schedule as the project looks to move forward.

Water Towers
The village is in the process of acquiring additional proposals from companies that claim
to be able to offer a comparable maintenance service program as the one we received from Utility Service. It is anticipated that we will have these additional proposals prior to the Sept. 15 regularly scheduled council meeting.