HAVEN, Kan. — The Haven City Council approved a major infrastructure improvement for the city’s utilities during Tuesday’s meeting.
City Clerk Leslie Atherton, and Public Works Director, Derek Stoll, requested the Council’s authorization to take on an advanced metering project for water and electric utilities, for a total not to exceed $295,554. The advanced metering for the water utility, estimated at $147,959, could be paid for with $35,000 from the Water Fund and the remaining $112,959 from ARPA funds in the Capital Improvement Fund. The City expects to receive in total around $180,000 in ARPA funds, though only $90,649.84 has been received so far. The remainder is expected to be disbursed in Summer of 2022.
Advanced metering for the electric utility, estimated at $147,595, could be paid for directly from the Electric Fund as $150,000 is budgeted for the project in the 2022 budget.
And the council approved the new bid from Blue Cross and Blue Shield for the city health and dental insurance. Health insurance rates will go up 4.95% and dental rates will go up 2.16%. The city budgeted for up to a 15% increase in insurance rates.
Finally, the council approved two $10,000 incentive packages. One for Las Carnitas Mexican Takeout which will be used to fund a new walk-in cooler and the other is for DaisyJo’s eatery. The small store was to open last year but delays slowed the project to where the incentive package originally asked for lapsed, so the owners, Earnest and Jonell Bell reapplied for the grant.
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