Spencer Mayor Gives Updates On Sewer Separation Projects & Food Truck Ordinance
Spencer Mayor Gives Updates On Sewer Separation Projects & Food Truck Ordinance
February 28, 2022Steve Schwaller
(Spencer)– The city of Spencer is continuing work on an ordinance regulating food trucks in the city. Mayor Steve Bomgaars says the city council met recently with several food truck operators during a committee of the whole meeting…
“They had a chance to review the ordinance as it was written and they provided input and made some, they wanted clarification on some things, they also brought some other ideas to the table and it was just an outstanding meeting, I think, with regard to communicating with the people who are going to be affected by this particular ordinance. And so I give them a lot of credit for coming forward and I appreciated the fact that they offered the input that they did. We should have an ordinance coming to the council for final filing at the first council meeting in March.”
Bomgaars didn’t give any specifics into what some of the proposed regulations would be.
Bomgaards also reported work on another phase to separate sewers in the city is moving forward…
“We’ve been dealing as the community well knows with sewer separation projects since 2008-2009 when the EPA and DNR came in and basically mandated that the city separate their sewer systems. This is an extension basically of that. This would be on the east side of Spencer. We’re in the process of doing, getting environmental impacts and studies and applying for grants, CBDG grants, which we have gotten in the past, to buy down assessments and those kind of things. This would be on the east side as I said, and it would probably take place no earlier than 2023.”
Bomgaars made his comments this past Thursday as part of his regular updates.
