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City departments made their monthly reports for April during the May 8 City Council meeting.

Olney Public Works Director Michael Jacoba wants City residents to know that Dude Wipes are not flushable, no matter what the maker of the popular “hot butt, chill wipes” says – and the dozen or so sewer stoppages his crew unclogged last month prove it.

Cleaning up and widening the City’s alleys to allow garbage trucks to collect new poly carts will cost between $650,000 and $1.2 million and take two to three years, depending on whether City workers or a contractor does the work, Public Works Director Michael Jacoba told the City Council last week.

The City Council mulled actions that they hope will prevent or mitigate another total shutdown of the water system like the one that occurred March 6-8, while citizens feted city workers for their tireless effort during a severe thunderstorm to get the service flowing again.

The City Council discussed how to spend the remaining $600,000 in federal COVID funds from the American Rescue Plan Act at its March 13 meeting as the deadline approaches to spend the money or lose it. “Over this next month, let’s work together … and come up with a list of what we think we will need with that balance, ” Mayor Rue Rogers told the Council. The Council voted to