(KLZA)-- The Falls City Council approved a resolution during their January 3 meeting to execute a contract with the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy that will provide the City with approximately $150-thousand in loan forgiveness on a sanitary sewer system update project which includes sewer lining and manhole work.

The City received a loan of $450-thousand for the project.

In other action the Council elected Mitch Merz as Council President for 2022 with Derek Leyden elected acting President of the Council.

The appointment of Merz to the be the City Council representative on the EDGE Board and Rob Gerweck to the Board of Adjustments was also approved.