At the February 10, 2005, regular meeting of the RBS City Council, the Annexation Committee deferred again to next month's meeting a report on their efforts to change expansion opportunities offered currently in the Urban Growth Boundary Report, prepared in 1999 for Red Boiling Springs by state planners from the Dept. of Economic and Community Development. RBS Mayor Randall Gregory suggested that the Annexation Committee meet to determine exactly what territories to add to those currently available for annexation and what part of the growth plan to change. He suggested that the Committee make a decision as regards territory and change and then make a formal request at a meeting to be set up with the Macon County Planning Commission. The Council voted to approve the meeting of the Annexation Committee. the date for which has not yet been set.

City Attorney Gary Copas discussed his plans for a law suit he is considering against the bonding company for Key Corporation. Key Corporation was the contractor hired by the City of Red Boiling Springs for the 2001 Water Rehabilitation Project. Key Corporation filed bankruptcy without finishing the project, making it necessary for the City to hire another contractor to finish the job. Under the terms of the law, the bonding company for Key Corporation should assume the financial obligations for the project's completion. Not only have they failed to do so, according to Copas, but they have shown no willingness to come to an agreement with the City. Copas said a law suit may be the only option.

George Gardner from the city engineering group Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon, gave Council members a status report on the work remaining to be done on the water plant. Gardner said the plant is working well and that RBS city employee Brian Long is doing a good job of running it, but that, among other things, the emergency generator was not yet set up, the pumps that feed the system haven't been installed and a Sanitary Survey inspection on the City's water system and a fence at Sabins Springs needed to be attended to.

The Council voted to raise the salary of Brian Long, who's employment probation period ended December 23rd, 2004, and to change the status from part-time to full-time and raise the salary of Eric Sadler, with the Sanitation Department. Long told the Council that he expects to complete training requirements and receive his operator's license for the water plant by May 5, 2005.