Mayor Taft Hendrixson, Secretary-Treasurer Hunter Hendrixson, and Public Works Director Kevin Robinson were in Nashville Monday to receive an official presentation of a $500,000 community development block grant from Governor Phil Bredesen and officials of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development.
The grant will be used to support the rehabilitation of the water treatment plant.
During Monday’s city council meeting, Mayor Hendrixson informed the council of the trip.
“I went to Nashville today and received from the Governor quite a nice check. It’s for the 2008 Community Development Block Grant that we applied for in 2008 but did not get. They have come back with stimulus money and we did get awarded the $500,000. There were several communities there for several different projects and I think we were one of only two that got the $500,000. We’re lucky that we got this. This is part of our water plant upgrade and we’re certainly glad to have it.”
The aldermen, in February, voted 5 to 0 to hire the J.R. Wauford & Company Consulting Engineers, Incorporated of Lebanon for the design phase of the rehabilitation of the water treatment plant and the raw water intake location at the lake.
The plans have been completed and forwarded to the state for approval.
The total project cost is estimated to be approximately 1.7 million dollars.
(Pictured left to right: Rick Meredith, assistant commissioner of the community development division of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, Kevin Robinson, Smithville Public Works Director, Governor Bredesen, Mayor Taft Hendrixson, Hunter Hendrixson, Secretary-Treasurer, and Matt Kisber, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development)
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