By Lexi MooreResidents in Hills who experienced low water pressure over the weekend and late last week will be happy to know that the problem was fixed on Monday.Automatic switches connected to pumps in the water tower were not kicking in on their own and fuses were blowing in the water plant building located south of the tower.Residents were experiencing low water pressure as a result of these problems.Hills maintenance worker Wayne Ward was manually turning the switches on and off throughout the weekend.The problem with low pressure caused the fire alarm and sprinklers in the high school to trigger on several occasions. The school installed a back flow preventer on their system to prevent low pressure from triggering the alarm.Monday Doug Chapman from Chapman Refrigeration and Electric found and fixed the problem in the water plant building.Recently an underground cistern had been removed from the area, and during destruction, wires that regulated the cistern were cut. The wires also played a part in regulating the automatic switches that control the amount of water released from the tower.After Chapman fixed the wires and replaced the breaker, everything at the water plant was working.Abuse of compost pile costs the city:In October the city cleaned up the compost area at the south end of Hills.There were seven yards of non-compost material in the pile that had to be hauled to Ketterling Services.The material, including an old deck, cost the city $70, in addition to more than $500 in fuel costs to haul it away from the site.The Council has discussed abuses of the pile in the past and agreed that the problem has not gotten better.Mayor Jim Jellema said, "What can you do? Without the pile things would be worse."The council instructed Ward to speak with Ted Larson about putting up additional snow fence along the south side of the area used for the city compost.Ward installed snow fence along part of the area to keep debris from blowing onto Larson’s fields. The idea is working but Larson said he feels more is needed to eliminate the problem.Open gym hours/supervisor set:Myron Sandbulte was approved at a rate of $25 per Sunday to supervise open gym activities from Nov. 27 through March 26.Last year Sandbulte was an alternate supervisor.The gym will be open from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday afternoons.