New Albany City Council taking utilities to court
Source: By ERIC SCOTT CAMPBELL, News & Tribune (IN), August 8, 2007
A divided New Albany City Council on Monday night directed its attorney to challenge recent contracts signed by the sewer utility and drainage utility, on the grounds that no bidding competition was allowed.
The resolution authorizes council attorney Jerry Ulrich to lodge a complaint in Floyd County Circuit Court. That court’s judge, J. Terrence Cody, already is presiding over a similar challenge — he granted drainage-workers union American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees a temporary restraining order to block the drainage deal until a hearing Friday morning.