Mayor Bonnie Henderson and other city officials left early Tuesday morning for Frankfort to accept in person a check of $10,250 for dozer work that will open the wooded areas of City Park to trails and family picnic areas.
Henderson said the dozer will be cranked up and work will begin “as soon as we get back and deposit the check in the bank.”
The flip side was the deteriorating condition of the city fire department's tanker truck, a truck crucial to fighting fires outside the city where there are no hydrants and water has to be hauled.
“The tanker is a 1977 Chevy model that was hand-built,” Ryan Hatfield told commissioners, “and we've got to face the fact the truck's on its last legs.”
Hatfield, a Clarkson fireman, asked that $25,000 of the recent $100,000 infrastructure grant from Frankfort be spent on a new tanker, but Henderson said those funds had been earmarked for sewer and water projects.
“I'm not sure whether or not we could spend that money on something like a fire truck,” she said, “and I'm checking with the state to see if that's possible.”
So far, she continued, “I haven't found anybody who will say this spending's okay and we need that okay before we do it.”
Henderson named Commissioners Tom Livergood and Leon Miller to work on getting state approval to buy the tanker.
Before adjourning, the commission approved a 50-cent per hour pay raise for the city clerk, city policeman and maintenance worker.
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