(KLZA)-- Falls City Council members approved awarding bids on five owner occupied housing rehabilitation projects when they met Monday night.
MIT Contracting of Pleasant Dale, Nebraska was awarded all five bids. Only one other company submitted a bid and that was on only one of the projects.
The total cast of the five projects will come to $71,312.
City Administrator Anthony Nussbaum said there is grant funds remaining to complete more projects and plenty of applications on file to use the funds. Those funds need to be expended by August of next year.
Council members also approved moving forward with closing more than 20 existing non-used bank accounts the city has.
A request from the Falls City Fire Department for a resolution authorizing the fire chiefs to respond and assist cities and villages in the area that participate in the Richardson County Mutual Aid Agreement, and would also include neighboring states and up to a 40-mile radius outside the corporate limits of Falls City if requested by other agencies or their local Fire Departments.
This could include are communities such as Hiawatha, Auburn, Sabetha and Pawnee City.
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