Committee to look at Kellet Project

A large crowd gathered at Seneca City Hall Tuesday night to voice opposition to renovating the old JN Kellett School for the new administrative home of Seneca Light and Water.  Before the meeting began, the city announced that the project had been put on an indefinite hold.  During the meeting, the city council recommended a committee be formed, explains Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander.  “What we are doing now, we are actually backing up.  Councilman Scott Durham made a recommendation to form a committee.  It will be made up of the residences and the city people here to come up with some ideas for a resolution to the project or what would be an idea for the property, pretty much.” The committee has been given 45-days to come up with a solution, adds Mayor Alexander. “The reason the 45-days is there is mainly because of the Light and Water project.  What we will do if there is not some type of agreement there about that project, we will be looking at another site and probably already in the process of looking at other sites right now to because we will move forward with the project at another location.” The 12-person committee will submit a report to the Seneca City Council at their January meeting. Protesters from Adams Subdivision said the new location for Seneca Light and Water and all of its heavy equipment is inappropriate for a quiet, single-family neighborhood with an historic past.