While new Police Chief Cornel Stemley outlined how he hopes to restructure the Bayard Police Department during a City Council work session Monday evening, Bayard councilors were quick to question several aspects of his plan. Their primary pushback centered around one urgently repeated phrase: “We want to see boots on the ground.” Stemley, who spent the last several years of his career working as a justice studies professor, spoke at …
April 13, 2021
Bayard sewage treatment project set to move forward Written by Geoffrey Plant on April 13, 2021
Third try’s the charm for Bayard’s nearly $2 million wastewater dewatering system project, for which a contract was finally awarded to Morrow Enterprises by city councilors during their brief regular meeting Monday afternoon.
“This [was] our third advertisement for construction bids for the dewatering system, and this is basically the best that we’ve been able to obtain,” said Bayard Clerk-Treasurer Kristina Ortiz. “Now that we have our full funding that included the legislative appropriation of the additional $455,000, we were going to be short about $60,000.”