{"id":3738,"date":"2023-06-24T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2023-06-24T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:21:16","slug":"lack-of-storage-space-growing-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/24\/lack-of-storage-space-growing-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of storage space growing concern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lack of storage space is a growing concern within the city administration of Decatur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the city continues to grow, that translates into a need for more equipment, more of many things. But Decatur has outgrown its storage space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is simply no space left. \u201cWe don&#8217;t have any, none,\u201d city Operations Manager Jeremy Gilbert said after a recent city council meeting. \u201cWe&#8217;re parking a lot of stuff (including expensive equipment) outside.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accentuating the need is the realization that some of the current storage space is going to go away in the next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilbert told city council that it was in March of 2022 that the city closed on its Grant St. property (see photo), which houses the water and parks departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The property was purchased by the Adams County Regional Sewer District which, at the time, granted the city two years to vacate the structure. Now, it&#8217;s less than a year before the March 1, 2024 deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t think they would (throw us out next March), but they certainly would be within their rights to do so,\u201d City Attorney Anne Razo said at the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quonset hut building on the property was vacated some time ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilbert told council he would like \u201ca little direction\u201d as to how a new building would be paid for. Would it, for instance, be placed in the budget for 2024? And under which department?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new building would be used by all departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilbert said that in 2022 he worked on estimates on the costs of a new building, the size of which would be needed by the city. At that time, the estimated cost was pegged at $440,000; he now has updated cost estimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No decisions were made, but it&#8217;s an issue that surely will return soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The lack of storage space is a growing concern within the city administration of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1D2B48E79F0846A8BB796B715CC55739.jpg?fit=585%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}