The Ranier City Council during a brief meeting Monday amended a waterline assessment roll to exclude four property owners.
The amendment was needed, as city Clerk Kim Nuthak explained to The Journal, because the city found it was more costly than anticipated to install waterlines to provide water service to four properties in the Three Points North area of the city.
“Not only would it cost the city more than anticipated, but it would have also cost the property owners because of bedrock there,” she said.
The city and property owners reached an agreement not to install waterlines to provide service to the residences, she said of the need to amend the assessment.
In other business Monday, the council heard that the Ranier Municipal Liquor Store showed a net profit of $4,034, or 14.71 percent, in February. “We’re going good,” Nuthak said. In comparison, the liquor store showed a net profit of $313, or 1.18 percent, in February 2012.
The council approved the purchase of a global positioning system, or GPS, for the maintenance department to assist in finding waterlines. It also approved, retroactive to March 15, a liquor license request by the Roadhouse Nightclub.
