A special Marietta City Council meeting has been called for this evening.

The agenda includes the correction of wording on legislation passed last week calling for a moratorium on injection wells in Washington County, creation of a city Utilities Division and public utilities director and approval of change orders to an ongoing sinkhole repair at Fourth and Marion streets.

Councilwoman Erin O’Neill said Wednesday that two council members would be absent for the next regularly scheduled meeting on Oct. 16.

“The Fourth and Marion project can’t wait,” she said.

Repairs on the sinkhole began in June, but the work has been delayed by weather and unexpected complications involving utility lines and additional damage discovered in the underlying storm drain. City officials said last month that the project was expected to cost around $620,000.

The change orders listed on the agenda released Wednesday afternoon are for $78,320 and $39,780. The agenda did not go into specifics about the orders or specify whether they would add to the earlier estimate or were included in that total.

O’Neill said the changes to Resolution 81, which was passed as an emergency during a special meeting on Oct. 2, are only to fix formatting, typos and grammatical errors. It calls on the Ohio Legislature to introduce legislation imposing a three-year moratorium on issuing construction permits for Class I or II injection wells in Washington County, issuing permits for the injection of brine or non-hazardous waste into existing wells in the county and bringing brine or hazardous waste from other states to inject into wells in the county.

Other legislation on the agenda would authorize a contract with Strand Associates to provide on-call wastewater engineering support for no more than $40,000; combine the Water Treatment, Water Reclamation and Utility Administration departments under a Utilities Division; create the position of public utilities director; and appropriate and/or transfer funds.

All but the fund transfer would be designated as emergencies. Six of the seven council members must approve an emergency declaration, allowing council to suspend the rules and pass legislation through multiple readings at the same meeting.

Evan Bevins can be reached at ebevins@newsandsentinel.com.