The Towns of Sweden and Clarendon are nearing the completion of an agreement that would extend a water line on White Road in Sweden to the Town of Clarendon border. According to Sweden Highway Superintendent Craig Smith, the agreement calls for Clarendon to purchase all materials and the Sweden highway department to install the line.

The line is being built as a transmission line, which means that water customers cannot tie into the line immediately. Once water districts are formed by each town, residences along the rural route will be able to access the water line. Smith said that building the line as a transmission line and then forming water districts "quickens" the process.

In another water project, the Town of Sweden and the Village of Holley have reached a verbal agreement for Holley to sell the Fourth Section Road water main and booster pump station to Sweden for $112,500. Water customers in that area live in the Town of Sweden, but are provided water service by Holley. Sweden Supervisor Nat Lester said those customers will save money when Sweden takes over the line because they are currently charged an out-of-district water rate that is higher than what Sweden charges its water customers.

In other business from the Sweden Town Board's December 12 meeting: Councilman Norm Wright is chairing a committee that is looking for funding to repair the field house located on the town's new Redman Road park. "I'd like to save the field house if possible," Wright said. Repair costs have been estimated at over a million dollars.

One of the ideas the committee is going to investigate is developing a long-term lease agreement with an entity (a sports organization for example). A lease could provide the income to allow Sweden to bond the cost of repairs at a reduced cost to taxpayers.