Tonight, Bridgeport City Council will wrap up details in preparation for the city’s June 9 election, during which two new Council members and a recorder will be elected.

 

The appointment of 2015 municipal election poll workers will take place.

 

City Clerk Andrea Kerr said after contacting poll workers from past city elections, she has assembled a list of proposed workers for this summer’s election.

 

“The list of poll workers has their names, their party – whether they are republican or democrat – and what precinct they would be working in,” she said.

 

It is standard procedure for Council to approve the slate of poll workers, Kerr said. Most of the proposed appointees have vast experience with city elections.

 

“I’d say about 95 percent of them have worked several elections here in the city,” she said.

 

The approval of the poll workers being the sole item of new business on Monday night’s agenda, Council will also revisit an item of old business – the second and final reading of an ordinance providing for the purchase of two parcels of land in the Woodland Hills Subdivision for public water distribution system purposes. At the April 13 meeting, Council passed the matter on first reading. The total price for the Sherwood Road property is $30,000. The purpose, said Mayor Bob Greer, is to address vital water pressure issues.

 

The Bridgeport water system, he explained, is a single continuous system – a weakness in one area of town places stress on other parts of town.

 

“The best example is to push the water to the top of our hills we have to increase the pressure in the valleys,” Greer said. “This property will be used to not only help maintain the pressure at the top of the section but will allow the overall pressures to not have to be increased to a level which would additionally stress the system.”

 

Also slated for Monday night’s meeting is the commemoration of the 14th year of the Scottish Heritage Festival & Celtic Gathering. Tribute will be paid to the late Anne Watson for her past endeavors, which have ultimately led to a successful city event, which is regularly attended by people from several states; some even from Scotland.

 

“Mrs. Watson was instrumental to the relocation of the Scottish Heritage Festival to Bridgeport,” Greer said. “I truly believe that without her efforts, this event would not be in Bridgeport. Festivals like this one are important to the community. They not only draw people to our community, but also provide an alternative to our citizens.”

 

PR Watson will be among those in attendance Monday night as his late wife is honored.

 

This year’s Scottish Heritage Festival & Celtic Gathering will be held May 2 at Bridgeport City Park.

 

At that event, the City will present members of the Scottish Festival board with a special plaque that will permanently be displayed at City Park, Kerr said. Attendees at Monday night’s meeting will get a sneak peek of the plaque, she said. 

 

Bridgeport City Council business gets under way 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall.