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Sparta Aldermen voted Thursday night to authorize bids for the installation of a backup generator at the YMCA building.
The full-building backup has been purchased. Mayor Jerry Lowery said the generator will allow the YMCA to maintain power and operate as a makeshift emergency shelter if needed.
“We hope we never have to use it,” Lowery said. “But it’ll be there available if needed and we got a really good deal on it and now we need to get that installed.”
The Sparta YMCA is a designated area for citizens to gather in the event of an emergency.
Sparta Alderman also approved a bid for repairs to the City Hall roof. The total cost, some $54,975.
“We came in one day, it was raining out and it was raining harder inside the building than it was outside the building,” Lowery said. “And we felt like that’s a really good bid to get this roof replaced up there.”
The board also approved a rezoning of two tracts along North Spring Street, one from manufacturing/industrial M-1 to commercial-D. The other will be rezoned from commercial-D to manufacturing-M1.
