City considers eminent domain as possible option

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. More than a year after an engineering firm identified one of the city’s lift stations as being near to collapse and urging city officials to replace it, the city has yet been unable to act on the request for reasons beyond its control. City Attorney Michell Herring informed the Monticello City Council on Tuesday evening, Oct. 3, that he had been unable to gain permission from the landowner to access the lift station, which appears is on property owned by what he referred to as the Monticello Center, formerly named Cross Landings Health and Rehabilitation Center. “I keep running into corporations that don’t exist,” Herring told the council. “