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Council meets at new town hall

After several long days of moving, the Whitehall Town Council was able to host their Monday meeting at their new location at 207 E. Legion Ave.

Mayor Mary Janacaro Hensleigh said moving all the files and furniture was an undertaking and thanked all town employees and workers from Lee's Office City in Butte for their help.

She added they are currently working out the kinks with the new building and welcomed suggestions from local residents on how to improve the building.

Town Clerk/Treasurer Summer Fellows said they have been working on fixing the glitches with the move but they will get them worked out.

MOSQUITOES

During the public comment period of the meeting Whitehall resident Bill Carhuff addressed concerns about mosquitoes.

Fellows told him it was an issue for Jefferson County, not the town. Jefferson County Commissioner Leonard Wortman who was in attendance said the local mosquito district was in charge, but did however discuss curbing the problem. Wortman said they have been working on a tourism web site to bring people into the county and if they are asking people to come here they many not come back because of the mosquitoes. He added they are looking at ways to do a major assault on mosquitoes over several years, including the possibility of combing the three county mosquito districts to possibly look at a special levy.

WEEDS

During public comment, local residents Marty Keogh and Dale Davis both discussed what they feel is a problem with weeds in Whitehall.

Keogh said don't send your kids to the bike bark because the weeds are taller than the kids and probably some adults.

Davis said the weeds are atrocious and are so high in the alleys it is affecting selling his home on Division Street.

Alderman Gary Housman said the town needs to crack the whip because they are not getting anything done in pubic works and "farming " jobs out.

 

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