Water, computer agreements on agenda for FD council
A pair of innovative agreements — one involving water and the other involving computer equipment — are on the agenda for the Fort Dodge City Council tonight.
The council will meet at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S.
The proposed water agreement is with the Fort Dodge Country Club. The country club uses about 15 million gallons of water a year to irrigate the golf course.
The city generates about 280,000 gallons of dirty water a day rinsing filters at the John W. Pray Water Facility. That water is pumped to the wastewater treatment plant.
The proposal would send the dirty water to the country club for irrigation use, thus conserving the 15 million gallons of pure drinking water now used for irrigation.
Under the plan, the city would spend about $171,300. It would also loan the country club $165,000 at 4 percent interest to help finance the work it would need to do.
The country club would spend about $426,000.
If the agreement is approved, some of the needed work would start this year.
The computer agreement would allow a trade between the Gowrie and Fort Dodge police departments. Gowrie would get a used laptop computer and two docks used for mounting the computers in patrol vehicles. Fort Dodge would get a new dock for the kind of laptop its department uses.