Troy City Council returns to its regular digs

After nearly two and a half months, Troy City Council has returned to its usual chambers in the Troy City Courtroom.

The council’s Feb. 17 meeting marked its first back in the courtroom since a burst pipe flooded the chambers in late November.

In December, Mayor Dallas Carr said renovations to the courtroom included taking two feet of mold off the upstairs walls. Many of the city’s records, stored in the building’s basement, were waterlogged. Municipal employees moved the documents into an unheated building on the city’s annex property on Third Street to let them dry.

To avoid future flooding, Carr suggested putting a drain in the basement with a sump pump.

While waiting for workers to restore the courthouse, the council met at the city annex property.