Cheney City Council OKs Well 3 interfund loan

Cheney’s City Council approved a resolution and an ordinance at its April 23 meeting to pay for repairs to aspects of the city’s water supply system.

The ordinance authorized an interfund loan from the Light Department and Sewer Department reserves to the Water Department to pay for the balance of work on the city’s redrilling of Well 3. The city was able to secure $750,000 in funding from the state for the project in last year’s supplemental budget, but was unsuccessful in its application for funding from the state’s Public Works Trust Fund to pay for the balance of the work, which at the tim...