Sarah Jamison is the newest Snyder City Council member after being elected unanimously by the five current council members on Monday.
Snyder Mayor Tony Wofford presented two candidates to fill the position vacated by Bill Harris. Harris recently moved to Lubbock.
Snyder Junior High School teacher Julian Dominguez and Jamison were both interested in serving, Wofford said.
Dominguez is a Snyder native, graduated from Snyder High School in 2009 and opened a financial services firm in Waxahachie before returning to Snyder.
Jamison, who served two years as a trustee on the Snyder ISD school board, has owned a business with her husband for the past 17 years.
“As a local business, I know that it’s essential to have input in the things that happen in your city because it directly affects each one of us,” Jamison wrote to Wofford.
Jamison’s term as an at-large council member will expire in May 2021.
The council approved four bids for five vehicles and a trailer totaling more than $1.36 million. The bids include three Chevrolet Police Tahoes, a Caterpillar loader, a Caterpillar wheel scraper and valve maintenance trailer.
Caldwell Country submitted the low bid for the Tahoes, $96,955.
Wilson Motors was one of the other two bidders.
Because their $105,000 bid was more than three percent more than Caldwell Country’s bid, the council could not accept it, the city’s attorney Bryan Guymon told council members in response to questions about accepting the local bid.
The city had budgeted $105,000 for the vehicles.The loader and scraper bids, $271,798 and $925,000 minus trade-in, respectively, were both through Warren Cat through the buy board. Both bids were at or below budget.
The trailer bid of $68,456 from E.H. Wachs through the buy board, was nearly $3,500 higher than the budgeted amount.
The council agreed to changes in the city’s contracts with Spectra Solar to reflect the correct name of the LLC that is party to the contracts and voted to enter an agreement with Lime Energy Services to replace the city’s existing lights with energy-efficient LED lighting.
According to information in the council members’ packets, the new lighting will save the city just more than $50,000 over five years.
The council also approved a $378,000 contract with Jacob and Martin for the next phase of water and waste water system improvements and to donate two computer tablets and printers the police department had previously used for Copsync, which it no longer uses, to the Borden County Sheriff’s office.