Water Board To Have Inspection Done On South Tower
The Water Board met Tuesday afternoon
in City Hall where Water Superintendent Rick Denny
updated the board on the progress of the South Water
Tower inspection. The board moved to have an
inspection preformed on this water tower after the
state said the interior of the tower had to be
repainted on a drive by inspection earlier in the
year. The Water Board felt that repainting the tower
was not needed at this time an elected to hire a
private inspector to look at the tower.
Rick Denny received two bids, one from Liquid
Engineering and a second from Dixon Engineering,
with the board electing to go with the low bidder
Liquid Engineering who will...
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Mayor Proclaims EMS Appreciation Week
Greensburg — Last week,
Greensburg Mayor Gary Herbert made a proclamation
that May 19 to 25 would be EMS appreciation week in
Decatur County, in conjunction with national EMS
appreciation week. When a life is on the line after
an accident or illness, the Emergency Medical
Service (EMS) is who shows up to help. Be it a car
accident, a fire, flood, or some other disaster, EMS
workers have saved thousands upon thousands of
lives. It's been said ...
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City Planning Commission Reviews Unsafe Building
Codes
The Greensburg Planning Commission
met Tuesday night in City Hall where they discussed
the status of unsafe buildings and what can be done
by the Commission to ensure things are handled in
the most effective way in light of the building that
was torn down this month on Main Street after
structural damage was identified.
Both Fire Chief Scott Chasteen, and City Engineer
Gary Murray reported that the building that was
recently demolished on East Main had been addressed
previously by a structural engineer who had deemed
the building sound with only cosmetic damage with
work having been done on the building, which is why
the building...
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Mayor Herbert Shares His Concerns On Recently Passed
Sign Ordinance In City Council Special Session
The City Council held a special
session last night at City Hall where Mayor Gary
Herbert took some time to express concerns with the
sign ordinance that was passed at the last city
council meeting. Councilman Glenn Tebbe stated he
was disappointed that the mayor had not spoken these
concerns before the ordinance was passed in the two
months the city council reviewed the ordinance or
earlier in the planning commission discussions that
had gone ...
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