The Stockbridge City Council voted at its Aug. 25 workshop meeting to approve the $69,673.84 purchase of a dump truck for the city’s water department as well as a $61,200 expenditure for annual watershed monitoring and reporting through 2023.

Also approved was a streetlights petition for the second and third phases of the Pine Grove subdivision at a cost of $402.96 per month or $4,835.54 per year. The city will assume the cost of 23 new streetlights in addition to the 30 currently being maintained in the subdivision’s first phase. All three votes were unanimous.

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