Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By D. LANG
The Wakefield City Council voted on Monday evening to retain professional services in relation to $350,000 that the city received last fall in grant and loan funds for the city’s water project.
In October of 2023, Wakefield was informed that it would be granted a $175,000 loan and a $175,000 grant from the Lead Service Line Replacement Program of the state’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
“State law requires municipal entities that receive funds from the (DWSRF), which are in the form of bonds, to retain bond counsel, legal services, engineering service...