The Century Council approved a recommendation from Interim City manager Buz Eddy to allow Escambia County (Fla.) to replace 10 commercial gas meters through a mutual aid response at a cost of $17,171 to help the town.
Eddy told the council that Pensacola Energy has agreed, at Mayor Grover Robinson's direction to make the repairs at cost right away.
“We were concerned if we did not do an RFP with the complexity of a gas meter like the one at the prison,” said Eddy. “It's very complex work and there are only a few entities in northwest Florida that can do this kind of work. We were sort of rescu...