The Mineola City Council awarded a project to build a new water tower for the city to a company from    McGuire Iron submitted the lowest bid of $1.14 million.

The engineer overseeing the project said McGuire Iron, "might not be the easiest to work with," but admitted it was not worth the $140,000 of additional money to use the second lowest bidder. He said his firm was familiar with McGuire Iron since it had built a similar tank in Crandall which the engineering firm had designed.

The city also discussed the current status of the city's street projects. Councilman John Storace asked about the quality of the current work in the light of some much recent rain,

The city's public works director, Johnny McCoy said the contractor on the job was qualified to lay asphahlt and would put it down if it was too cold or the conditions were not proper. McCoy noted, however, that the city would probably not be able to finish the project until Spring.