Along with the budget, construction and new projects were also a hot topic for the Liberal City Commission during its most recent meeting Tuesday night.

Up first with this was the discussion of a Sensus upgrade for the Water Department.

“This is basically a software upgrade that’s going to be spread out over the next five years so we can afford it properly,” City Manager Cal Burke said. “This software does have a lot more capabilities than what our prior software had and basically, the old software is going to die away on us.”

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