Williamston Town Council holds Work Session

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By Stan Welch
At a work session last week, the Williamston Town Council addressed the request for funds by the Williamston Cemetery Committee. (See associated story elsewhere in this issue.) But they also addressed several other matters.
Mayor Burgess announced that the funds the town would receive from the American Recovery Act, related to COVID impacts on communities and towns, had been increased from $1.95 million to $2.1 million. The increase was based on revised census figures for the town. Those funds will be used in part on the Williams Street project.
He also announced that the town had saved several thousand dollars by replacing the culvert under Green Street themselves, only to total the town’s newest (2018) dump truck while depositing the spoil materials at the county landfill. “The truck wasn’t especially heavily loaded, but it was on uneven ground, and as the bed went up, the load shifted and twisted the truck,” said Burgess. “It was so bad that the hood came open and can’t be closed.”
The Ingle’s Corporation, which recently purchased the Ace Hardware shopping center, has agreed to let the town us the parking lot for its fourth of July activities. On July 3, the town will sponsor a car show, fireworks and JukeBox 45, a live musical performance.
He informed the bare quorum of the council present at the work session that the Spring Water Festival board had voted to allow alcohol consumption at the amphitheater location during the Spring Water Festival.