BLOSSOM — Shortly after the Blossom Metropolis Council adjourned the Thursday night time assembly, Mayor Jeff Stover and council members Debra Burge, Charlotte Burge and Public Works Director Jack Baker headed over to the town park to check out the playground tools.
In the course of the assembly, Stover instructed the council that earlier within the month in the course of the metropolis’s Fourth of July celebration within the park, he seen the poor situation that a few of the playground tools was in.
“I don’t know if y’all have been to the park currently, however there’s issues. We needed to pull the children off the swing set in July in the course of the celebration,” Stover mentioned. “All of the picket stuff, we now have obtained to eliminate it and the steel that’s sticking up across the park.”
Councilwoman Charlotte Burge agreed.
“Let’s pull the whole lot up in order that no baby will get harm,” she mentioned. “We have to shut it now. It’s due to security.”
Council appointed a committee made up of the council members and Baker to examine the tools on the metropolis playground.
Baker instructed the council that he had been pricing swings units, borders and mulch to interchange the pebbles the place the previous playground tools rested.
By Friday many of the playground tools had been eliminated with plans to interchange a few of it and repair what could be fastened, they mentioned.
In one other matter, the council tabled deciding on a citizen to fill the vacant seat on the council.
Crystal Carter attended the assembly and expressed an curiosity in filling the seat, however the council voted to desk the choice as a result of two different folks have additionally expressed an curiosity, however weren’t capable of attend the assembly.
The council will take up filling out the membership on the Aug. 18 assembly.
The council additionally arrange a fiscal 12 months 2022-23 finances schedule that may embody a public listening to on the property tax charge Sept. 8.
