VFW prepares benches for park

At the Troy City Council meeting Wednesday, John Brown, Troy’s former mayor, announced the VFW Community Projects group was nearing completion on benches to be placed near the pavilion at Roosevelt Park. 

Larry Chapel, Troy’s fire chief and owner of Chapel Cedar, will make the timber frame for the benches, and Twinkle Welding made brackets. It is a $900 project, but most funds have been donated by local businesses such as Larson Lumber. 

The group expects the project, on the east side of the pavilion, to be done in a week.

In other City Council news:

• Mayor Tony Brown wanted more detail 

in reports given to City Council, both on overtime sheets and reports from departments such as Sewer.

• The Council needs to have a preliminary budget on Aug. 30, and a final one on Sept. 6.

• Jeni Evans was in attendance to get her business license approved. Bradley Evans Inc., a consulting firm, was approved unanimously. The business will consult and help with business development and tackle grant writing.

• Rick Pefferman was in attendance to get his business license approved. K & R Enterprise, a scrap metal and tattoo parlor business idea, was tabled until Pefferman could get permits in order. The Council drew issue with the noise potential of the scrap metal side and the health problems with the tattoo and piercing side.

• The Council voted unanimously to accept a bid of $2,500 from Dennis Welch for the 1987 Ford Truck the city was selling.

• The Council voted unanimously to approve claims of $46,648.54 for the month, including Frontier, Bonneville Power and a cost of sending letters to 20 delinquent bill-payers.