With the funding of an $11 million bond, the Fort Oglethorpe City Council is moving for-ward with city sewerage and trail projects.

ARCADIS, a consultant group, has finished with the engineering plans for the Stuart Road trail project. The group is working on the detailed contracts and specifications, which will cost $16,000.

After the city receives authorization from the Georgia Department of Transportation, the next step would be to move the project into the bidding stage.

This project will connect Stuart Road with the sidewalks and allow people in that area to walk to City Hall instead of having to drive on Battlefield Parkway.

For a cost of about $5,000, ARCADIS will work on the detailed designs and contracts that will rehabilitate old sewerage lines. The two-inch sewerage lines the city hasn’t updated in downtown Fort Oglethorpe will be increased to 6- to 8-inch pipe.

Maintenance work will be done on other sewerage lines for a cost of $12,000. This project is ready for the bidding phase.

In other business at the Aug. 24 Fort Oglethorpe City Council meeting:

The council approved the purchase of one Ford F150 truck with crew cab for the Fort Oglethorpe Fire Department. The cost of about $20,000 will be paid with special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) funds. The title will be in the city of Fort Oglethorpe’s name. The new truck is necessary to replace the department’s “aging fleet,” said fire chief Bruce Ballew.

The council approved the cost of about $7,500 to make repairs to the city’s mid-sized bulldozer. The machine was originally purchased used. SPLOST funds will pay for the re-pairs.

The council approved the appointment of two new members to the Historic Preserva-tion Commission. Cathy Long and Susan Hutcheson, both of Shelby Street, will be replacing the expired terms of John Munia and Sharon Anderson.

The council made the third and final reading of Ordinance No. 2009-08, a traffic regula-tion and control ordinance. This ordinance allows police officers to use speed-detection devices on the newly annexed portions of Mack Smith and Cloud Springs roads and U.S. 41. Before radar is used, the city will install city limits signs and speed detection device warn-ing signs.