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Sweet Home City Councilors on Tuesday, May 26, gave staff members the go-ahead to seek bids for city engineering services and a new operator for the water/wastewater treatment plants.

Council members unanimously agreed to authorize the solicitation of a new contract operator for the treatment plants after deciding in February to terminate its relationship with Jacobs Engineering, which, had operated the plants since 2006.

An audit last year uncovered a number of deficiencies in the treatment plants. Though council members have voiced interest in returning operation of the facilities back...