After several canceled meetings, the Bayard City Council met again Monday at the Bayard Community Center for the first time in more than a month and a half. While the meeting was mostly dominated by resident comments and concerns, Clerk-Treasurer Kristina Ortiz also gave notice of a “fraud incident” the city fell victim to earlier this year and provided long-awaited clarification regarding a money order that former Chief of Police …
At their meeting Tuesday, the Bayard City Council discussed various ways to use legislative funds to improve recreational areas throughout the city. Prior to the pandemic, the council had hoped to build a new concession stand with these funds, said Clerk-Treasurer Kristina Ortiz. The pre-pandemic cost of the project was estimated at $540,000, but with the price of building materials having skyrocketed since, the original project is no longer feasible. …
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.”