Mount Isa City Council has approved over $4 million of work on two big ticket items in its ordinary meeting of Wednesday, May 25.
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Council has approved a tender for $2.9m for the provision of smart meters for all of its 7200 water meters through an Advanced Metering Infrastructure System.
A company called Suez Water won the contract for $2,930,093 and they will replace all of the existing 20 and 25mm meters, as well provide a dedicated communication network to support remote reading, a meter management system to collect, store and manage the data that is retrieved, and a customer web portal.
Cr Paul Stretton said the project was "long overdue" and would make tracking of water usage in the city a lot easier for customers and for council.
Mayor Danielle Slade said if there was a hidden water leak on a property the new system will pick it up, potentially saving the resident a significant amount of money.
The project is a joint initiative of Mount Isa City Council and the Queensland Government with $1.77 million in funding from the Queensland Government's 2019-21 Local Government Grants and Subsidy Program, and $1.18 million from Council.
In a late item of business Council also approved a tender for $1.2m to design and construct the Gallipoli Park pump track.
Council was granted $895,000 for the project from the Queensland Government's Active Community Infrastructure Projects to install a state-of-the-art asphalt pump track on the southern end of the park and after calling for tenders Council has now awarded the design and construct contract to Townsville-based Transcape Constructions for $1.177.845.
Council also increased the project budget to $1,523,021.
Cr Peta MacRae said the project would go a long way towards the liveability of the city.
Mayor Danielle Slade said she couldn't wait to take her children to the pump track when it is built.
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Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
