SHERMAN, Texas (KTEN) -- The City of Sherman is looking to improve older buildings in the downtown district, so it's spending $87,000 on a sewer study.

Last budget season, the city allocated roughly half a million dollars from a re-investment zone; now they're directing some of those funds hoping to learn more about the unseen infrastructure in these historic buildings.

"Original $500,000 we allocated for Central Business district," said city spokesperson Shawn Teamann. "We're going to use about $87,000 of that to employ this firm that will give us a comprehensive look at what our sewer system is doing in downtown."

The city expects to have a complete status report from the study around August.  They'll start making any needed changes based on that study.