Kerry White, city clerk-treasurer said the utility system's server and work stations will need to be replaced at a projected cost of $14,000.
The server that connects all the computers in the utility system and the hardware at work stations "is getting older, and we're starting to have problems with day-to-day work, such as billing."
The commission approved writing specs and putting together costs on replacing the 3-year-old server and the seven work stations.
Commissioners also got an audit report for the last fiscal year, and an outside auditor is scheduled for the next utilities meeting to formally present the report and answer commissioners' questions.
After Utilities Superintendent Eddie Miller alerted commissioners to the need for a natural gas line from Hwy. 259 to U.S. 62 along the bypass route, the commission approved starting the project.
Miller said two large users moving in between Leitchfield and Clarkson had put Clarkson's supplies of gas in some jeopardy.
He also asked for and got authorization to start negotiations with engineers for a large water line that will follow the bypass around Leitchfield.
And the commission asked Attorney David B. Vickery to write an ordinance for early consideration that would require detectors to read water use on fire lines.
The ordinance, commissioners said, should grandfather in current businesses and companies to cut installation costs, but require the detectors (or meters) on new users and on any upgrade of current fire lines.
Harrison Dennison was named head operator at the Water Treatment Plant after current operator Jim Booth said he will retire. And buying two meter-reader trucks was approved.
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