City Council hears construction updates, were City Pool is headed and postponing skatepark project

Malta Mayor Shyla Jones and Malta Public Works Director Jim Truelove had a meeting with TD&H, the firm charged with the engineering portion of the city’s water project, and though things have been tense between the entities of late, the latest meeting was more “productive.”

“We started at 11 (a.m.) and finished at about 5:30 (p.m.),” Mayor Jones said. “It was a very long meeting, but I feel it was also a very productive meeting as well.”

At the first Malta City Council meeting in March, Mayor Jones reported TD&H and the City differed on how many days were left to finish the pr...