Gordo Council Wants to Hire Engineer for Road Projects, to Have More Neighborhood Patrols, Will Ask for Help Cutting Grass at Park; Utility Board Gets Good News on Water System

BY Doug Sanders Jr.

News Correspondent

The Gordo Town Council is going to negotiate hiring an engineer to deal with potential road projects, it was decided at the Feb. 9 meeting, which also learned that there will be more neighborhood patrolling by the Police Department, and a call for local churches to help cut the grass at the town’s park.

Furthermore, the town’s utility board got good news about its water system in a meeting held after the council meeting.

Mayor Robin Edgeworth said she and Councilman Kenneth  McCoy attended a quarterly meeting with the director of the Alabama Department of Trans- portation to discuss some of the highway needs in Gordo. The big news to come out of that meeting is that the four- laning of U.S. Highway 82, a project years in the making, will be completed in October of this year. “We’ve been looking for this for a long time,” said Mrs. Edgeworth.