Daycare project Now 90% complete
Clinton City Manager said this building in Jaycee Park, which will serve as a daycare for city of Clinton employees was about 90% completed and will open Aug. 1. (photo:Ben Pounds )
City Manager Roger Houck made that announcement at the City Council meeting on Monday.
He said the project is about 90 percent complete.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley plans to run the daycare, and it will also serve children of some companies in the Eagle Bend Industrial Park.
At the same meeting, Mayor Scott Burton spoke in general of the progress on that project and the Historic Downtown Clinton infrastructure projects that are also underway.
“The sun is rising and things are getting better, I hope,” he said. “A lot of good things are going on and I’m proud of that.”
Vape stores
The council did not vote on two proposed ordinances that would have regulated specialty shops with 25% or more of their space dedicated to vape or cannabis-derived products, as originally planned.
The ordinances, as passed on first reading, would only allow three such shops per 10,000 residents, although it would make an exception for existing ones or ones reopening after being forced to close.
Houck told The Courier News that the council postponed its vote due to legislative actions from the state of Tennessee, which might affect some of the ordinances’ provisions.
