GREENUP —
The City of Greenup will soon have its own website.
Greenup City council approved hiring Mountain State Computer and Networking services last week to design and build the city site.
It will launch in six to 10 weeks and will continue to be a work in progress, said Mayor Lundie Meadows. Officials set aside $5,000 for a site in the 2012-13 budget.
“The website would be just to brand our town to get our information out to the constituents we serve,” he said. Meadows anticipates having city officials’ photos, contacts and biographies online as well as a community calendar during the initial phase of development.
Water and sewer customers would also be able to pay their bills electronically and eventually the site will be set up to collect other city taxes and other fees, he said.
“I’d like to get to the point where the city minutes are on there, too and all the city ordinances. Any information that we could get through the Web to the people that we serve that is the goal of the website,” Meadows said.
A web address for the city has not been determined.
Meadows said he would like to see the site modeled from cities that have done a good job branding themselves, like Gatlinburg, Tenn., he said. He envisions Greenup’s site being nongeneric and enticing to city residents, potential businesses and visitors.
In other city business last week, the city approved spending two previously secured Kentucky Infrastructure Authority grants worth a combined $53,000. The first grant, worth $13,000, will be used to create additional storm drains.
Meadows said drains are needed in the alley between Walnut and East Main streets as well as along Perry Street, where the city has a problem with water getting into its sanitary sewer lines.
The second grant, worth $40,000, will be used for preliminary engineering work on replacement of the water intake structure at the Greenup Water Plant.
“We have a floating intake there now. We want to have something permanent that we can get to and maintain,” Meadows said. Greenup draws water from the Little Sandy River.
The grant will cover the cost of designing the project and securing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permits. The funds, he said, will be enough to get the city “a plan and a cost estimate so we can begin applying for more grants to build it.”
City council members also approved the hiring of an additional full-time police officer. Officer Richie Jones will begin patrolling on Friday, the mayor said.
City Clerk Jessica Gilliam will out of the office this week to attend clerk school in Frankfort. Gilliam was a recipient of the Kentucky Municipal Clerk Association’s Kitty Johnson Scholarship, which covered the cost of her tuition.
CARRIE STAMBAUGH can be reached at cstambaugh@dailyindependent.com or (606) 326-2653.
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