City water tanks getting repainted

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. A couple of the city’s bulbous water towers are getting a facelift, in terms of new coats of paint. Interim City Manager Steve Wingate recently informed the Monticello City Council of the imminent planned repainting of the two tanks, noting that per the maintenance agreement one of tanks should have been repainted last year. For whatever reason, he said, the required maintenance had fallen through the cracks. He had since, however, contacted the vendor about the lapse and the latter had promised to correct the slipup immediately, Wingate said. One of the water tanks to be repainted is at the industrial park near the jail off U.S. 19 South, and the