At the regular monthly meeting of the Inlet Town Board on October 11, a resolution to hold a Public Hearing regarding the Inlet Sewer District was adopted by a 5 to 0 vote.
The hearing is scheduled to take place during the monthly Inlet Town Board meeting on Tuesday, November 8 at 7:45 p.m. Continue reading
Inlet Town Supervisor John Frey, along with Councilmen Herb Schmid and Bill Faro, met with Congressman Bill Owens (D-23rd District) on Wednesday, August 31 to discuss the possibility of receiving additional funding for the wastewater treatment plant project in Inlet.
According to Supervisor Frey, the three qualified bids that came in for the project were, on average, a million dollars over what the project engineers had originally projected them to be.
Frey cited the remote location of the project and a rise in construction costs and fuel prices as contributing to the funding gap.
The new water treatment plant is planned to be located within the Inlet Sewer District, which according to Frey was formed with a regulation that stated that all projects had to be grant-funded by at least 75 percent.
Frey said the Town of Inlet was able to secure a grant of $2.4 million for the project from the NYSDEC EFC (Environmental Facility Corporation) and the USDA Rural Development office, but that with a now estimated price tag of $3.6 million, the town will need to find additional funding. Continue reading