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Representatives from 3rd Day
Productions were present Thursday, February 12, at the most
recent DeLeon City Council meeting to give an update on their
efforts to hold a motocross event at the Community Park in June.
Council members Lee Childers, Pauline
Villarreal, Billie Lightfoot and Mayor Danny Owen were present,
with Gayle Stroud absent. Others present for the meeting
included Karen Wilkerson, city administrator; Rob Duncan, public
works administrator; Linda Levens, Chamber executive director,
Chief Ralph Dickey, and Heather Hill, detective with the DeLeon
Police Department.
During the citizen’s presentation
portion of the meeting, Benji Nabors, Tracy Kitchens and Angela
Kitchens, of 3rd Day Productions, informed council members that
they believed “they’d reached an agreement” concerning the dirt
needed for the proposed motocross event. “We’re going to help
Rob (Duncan) move some dirt around, in effect,” Nabors said. He
went on to add that, depending on the quality of the clay they
come up with to build their track, some tractor pull officials
had expressed interest in leaving some of the clay in the arena
to build up their pulling surface.
Duncan and Nabors then explained to
council members that they were basically looking at doing some
“excavation” at the park to get the necessary dirt.
“They’ll be leveling some parts of
it, when they dig down, and putting it back in another spot,”
Duncan said.
Before the discussion ended,
Councilman Childers told Nabors that the council wanted this
event in DeLeon.
“We’re trying to go with what you
need,” Childers said, “because we want you here.”
“We want to be here,” Nabors said. “I
think for this year we’re good to go. I’m excited about it and I
think it’s going to go well.”
In response to a question from Tracy
Kitchens, Wilkerson said that the contract would be ready in
time for the next council meeting.
Rick Elmore and Don Crouch,
representatives of RB3, the city’s new cable franchisee, also
addressed council members during the citizen’s presentation
portion of the meeting. They’d been encouraged by Mayor Owen to
attend a meeting, to respond to complaints from customers
regarding problems with the company’s Internet service.
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