While the city is turning junk into bucks with its new GovDeals account, its purchase of a Kubota excavator will pay dividends in proper repairs for years to come, according to Mayor Bill Baker.
Throughout the regular meeting of the Yorktown City Council on June 24, references were made to the ways a new excavator will benefit the city. From street repairs to sewer bed cleaning, digging trenches to installing irrigation systems and shaping terrain, the new equipment will help city crews complete jobs more thoroughly than they currently can without it.
“The city is still cleaning sewer beds by hand,” Baker said before the council voted to purchase a Kubota excavator for $46,067. Later in the Street Committee report, Council Member Dickey Rodriguez said the purchase will alleviate problems because “everywhere we have issues is where water is.”
