Kimball City Attorney and Marion County Attorney Billy GougerKIMBALL, Tenn. – When city administrators got a look at a grant-required engineering contract for an upcoming sewer line project, they found a lot of things in it they didn’t like.
Mayor David Jackson said a draft of the contract was received recently from James C. Hailey & Co. in Nashville, and neither City Attorney Billy Gouger nor the Tennessee Municipal League, Kimball’s insurance provider, liked the language in it.
Gouger said he had serious concerns about the “form contract” that about five different engineering associations and societies put together several years ago.
The sewer project involves a line extension to the site of the new technical school in Kimball. It would run from Industrial Boulevard under Interstate 24 and to the Holland farm property along U.S. Highway 41.
One major problem with the initial contract included putting insurance burdens on the town that the municipal league “simply won’t allow,” Gouger said.