Mascoutah has commended about $1.8 million in spending to order the essential components as part of a $4.4 million restoration to the city's main transformer structure. The project will reinstate the current transformer with a fresh one to improve dependability.

"Our chief transformer was in overkill of 25 years old after it was put in use," told City Manager Terry Draper at the Monday City Council meeting. "We were aware of the epoch and dependability of that transformer.” The City Council consented ordering for manufacture of the $930,189 transformer from Kuhlman Electric Corporation of Versailles, Ky. The transformer will be built over 38 weeks before release and installed by December 2008.