By Rusty Nixon Correspondent
PLYMOUTH — The various boards for the city of Plymouth took a step to ensure the city’s customer safety.
The Water Works Board, The Sanitary Board and the Board of Public Works and Safety enacted a joint resolution to mitigate the possibility of identity theft. The consumer protection action was necessary to keep the city in federal compliance. The measures undertaken will help ensure customers of city utilities against identity theft.
Most of the measures mandated by the federal guidelines were already in place by the Clerk-Treas-urer’s office.

In other business:
• The city water department will be starting its spring “valve turning” soon. Trucks with yellow flashing lights will be making their way through neighborhoods for the next few weeks to test equipment.
Water Superintendent Jeff Yeazel told the board that there should not be the discoloration of water caused in the past by the tests, since the city underwent special flushing procedures last year.
• The Board of Public Works and safety approv-ed a pair of appropriations for vehicles.
The street department will advertise for bids on a new dump truck that is also capable of snow removal. The vehicle was part of the departments budget for the year.
Country Auto was awarded a bid for three new police cars. The Plymouth dealership had a low bid of $56,826 for three new Dodge Chargers for the department. Two of the vehicles were part of this year’s budget, the other is a replacement of a vehicle totaled in March of this year on an emergency run.
• Assistant Police Chief Dave Bacon will be attending the F.B.I. Academy.
Plymouth Police Chief Jim Cox requested permission for his assistant to be part of a 10-week course at the Academy, with nearly all the expense paid by the F.B.I..
• Phend & Brown will be finishing the work on sidewalks along Randolph Street in the next couple of weeks. The work was put off by weather at the end of last year.