City Council meeting focuses on appreciation
By Bob Robinson
STAR STAFF
One month to the day after the terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon, Elizabethton City
Council's meeting last night focused on appreciation.
Council adopted proclamations:
* Supporting the annual sale of Buddy Poppies
by the Veterans of Foreign Wars;
* Declaring Oct. 15-19 as National Business Women's
Week. Council members Nancy Alsup, Janie McKinney and Diane
Morris accepted on behalf of the local Business and Professional
Womens' organization; and,
* Declaring Sunday, Oct. 11, as Michael Mains
Day in the City of Elizabethton after Mains was named 2001
Executive of the Year by the Appalachian Baseball League.
Vice mayor Sam Shipley, chairman of the Carter
County Rescue Squad board of directors, presented Councilwoman
Morris with a plaque in recognition of three years service
on the board of directors of the rescue squad.
In other action, council:
* Approved bids and purchases, totaling $189,695;
* Approved a change order, totaling $43,933,
for additional paving in the $1.6 million West Mill Street
improvement project.
* Approved a resolution allowing the Elizabethton
Golf Course to pay interest only on a principle loan amount
of $178,571 until August 1, 2005.
* Made the following appointments:
Golf Course Board: Sam Barker,
Jack Cole, Sam Hopson, Mike Matheson and Bill Tetrick to fill
unexpired term of Bill Hampton, who resigned, to terms ending
2003; and,
Personnel Advisory Board: Lindberg
Estep, William Plumer, Sharon Shepherd and John Wagner, Sr.
to terms ending 2003.
