November 2, 2026 City of Morganton City Council

The City of Morganton City Council’s regular meeting on November 2, 2026, included several approved utility and infrastructure expenditures. On the consent agenda, council approved a $1,102,130.81 contract with Huber Technology for wastewater-treatment-plant bar-screen equipment repair, along with budget items including a project fund for a $8,052,665 drinking-water resiliency grant, a $99,846 state grant for law-enforcement bonuses, and $15,000 in façade grants. Council also approved a contract with Doppler, Inc. for after-hours electric-utility response and dispatch services at a base annual subscription cost of $54,998, subject to an 8% technology uplift in subsequent years. All motions described passed.

Council approved a $15,328 amendment to Garver LLC’s Lower Weir Dam repair engineering contract, bringing its total to $142,302, and a $325,600 amendment to Highfield Infrastructure Engineering’s Silver Creek Pump Station contract, with a matching budget amendment funded through a state cash-flow loan. It also approved a $175,284 Garver amendment for the water and wastewater master plan and rate study, split equally between the two utility funds. Other actions included speed-limit and stop-sign changes on Kirksey Drive and a resolution thanking the General Assembly for House Bill 850’s temporary moratorium on certain interbasin water transfers. Officials also urged attention to potential state restrictions on municipal electric-utility transfers; no change to Morganton’s transfer policy was voted on.