Council pushes decision on sewer lagoon contract

DAVENPORT – City council elected at its March 10 to do a second reading of the sewer lagoon contract pending an agreement with a farmer before the contract, which is looking to be a five-year, 2/3-1/3 split agreement between the city and farmer, is officially awarded.

Council was planning to meet with the farmer the evening of March 17 to see if a contract can be worked out. If so, the contract would then move for final approval to council’s March 24 meeting.

The city received two bids after re-advertising the need for the acreage at the sewer lagoons north of the baseball fields to be farmed....