During Wednesday’s Monthly Saint Elmo City Council Meeting, two individuals discussed with the council that they had yet to be paid for their work on the new truck stop that is in the process of being built. Tim Heuerman of Heuerman Brothers Trucking in Effingham and Clayton Gathe of Richland Land Improvement informed the St. Elmo City Council they are owed a total of 220,000 dollars for the work that they provided from February through July of this past year. The money is not owed by City, but by a company involved in the construction. Heuerman said that he was $160,000 short, and Gathe was $62,000 short. Heuerman was told that he would be paid on a monthly basis, and has not received a payment since August. Gathe expressed that he and Heuerman had no other choice but to go to the City and see if there was anything that they could do to help speed up the process, to which multiple city council members, including Mayor Kim Baron, said they would. The payment agreement was not made with the City of Saint Elmo, but with an outside contracting company.
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