City starts moving its shops

Trucks and equipment belonging to the City of Sisters Public Works Department will soon have a new home.

A construction crew poured a slab for a new truck barn on Monday, March 3. The new metal building will be located at the city's sewer treatment plant site. Eventually, all the city shops will be located there, according to Public Works Director Gary Frazee.

The city sold the current city shop site behind the Sisters Fire Hall last summer. The fire district plans to expand its facilities to cover the whole block.

"In theory, we had two years to move," Frazee said. "Our goal is to be out by July 1, 2004."

The current shops are crammed full of equipment.

"Those shops down there, we can't even get a pickup in there," Frazee said. "Little by little we're moving dumpsters out here, moving equipment."

There is still no decision on a new site for city recycling services, though Frazee said his staff is "leaning toward" a site in the industrial park.

The building currently under construction will house city vehicles. There will be one enclosed and heated bay to protect more fragile equipment and to offer a place to work on vehicles.

GJ Miller construction of Sisters is the contractor on the $116,000 project.

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