The City Council approved a transfer of funds Tuesday relating to the city’s new water plant for which construction is scheduled to begin in June behind the city’s old water plant on Main Street, M
Patterson Mayor Rodney Grogan speaks during Tuesday’s City Council meeting. The City Council voted a raise for the mayor.
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The mayor’s salary and benefits slightly more than doubled Tuesday night over the previous salary with the City Council’s approval, the first time an increase to the mayor’s salary has occurred in
Patterson Mayor Rodney Grogan is shown at Tuesday's City Council meeting.
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The City Council moved forward Tuesday with plans to increase the mayor’s salary to bring it closer to the salaries of mayors in comparable, surrounding communities, council members said.
The city council took another step Tuesday toward replacing its 70-year-old water plant by approving the issuance of $1 million in bonds to help pay for the estimated $6 million plant.
City officials have changed plans for the city’s new water plant and are now proceeding with a “non-conventional” plant similar to two Arkansas plants that city officials visited.