Baxter To Construct New Street Department Building

The Baxter Street Department will soon have a new home.

Mayor John Martin said Aldermen awarded bids for a new building during Thursday night’s meeting.

“What we have now, we’ve outgrown it and it’s an older building. We plan on selling that building once we get our new one built,” Martin said. “We’re going to be building down where our sewer plant is. We’ve got quite a few acres around there, so it will be around Elmore Town Road.”

Construction of the new building will cost the city about $50,000.

Martin said he expects construction to get started within the next three weeks. He said crews should be able to complete the project in about two weeks.