Although hopes for federal funding assistance in the wake of the June storm have been dashed, city officials still plan to move forward with several needed projects.Those projects just may take a bit longer to achieve, Mayor Josh Stevens said during a discussion at Tuesday evenings meeting of the Lamesa City Council.Top priority, he said, is to make improvements to the city’s N. 7th Street wastewater lift station.Located on the south side of the Boys and Girls Club Lake, that lift station was flooded and completely shut down during the June 26 storm that pounded Lamesa with heavy rain, flooding,