The Jennings City Council rejected a bid for the city’s water plant project which came in drastically over budget during a recent meeting.
The original budget set by engineers for the project was $10,300,000.
“We opened a single bid for the project and the base bid came in at $21,200,000,” Mayor Henry Guinn said. “We do not have a spare $11 million floating around. We looked. We ‘turned over the bed…