Paul EvansJASPER, Tenn. – City administrators have been notified that Jasper will receive a $500,000 grant to help pay for installation of water lines across the new bridge crossing the Tennessee River along U.S. Highway 41.
That job will require an engineering inspector. And, at its November meeting, the Jasper Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted 4-1 to accept an amendment to add an inspector to the engineering services contract the city has with CTI Engineers Inc.
Alderman Paul Evans, who will take over as mayor of Jasper next month, cast the lone dissenting vote and questioned whether the inspector should be a CTI employee.
Evans said that on a previous project a CTI inspector did a poor job that cost the town an extra $4,400.
“I don’t want another issue where we’re flipping the bill for something that we paid for once before because the inspector didn’t do his job,” he said.