By Angel Perkins Staff Writer
BOURBON — Tangi Michaelson attended a recent Bourbon town Ccouncil meeting after being requested to make an update about the recent demolition of the old pharmacy building on the corner of Main and Center Streets.
She said inspections had just been completed, but that a final clean up date had not been scheduled.
“I apologize for how thus has dragged on,” she said. “I have no control of how long this had taken.”
She added that it had not been decided if the wall (that remains and faces Main Street) will come down but they were “taking care of the existing wall and the roofline of the building (that had been adjoining that one, owned by the Bourbon First United Methodist Church).”

Michaelson said she “would like to think that the cleanup would be done” prior to the town council meeting in June.    
Two issues regarding parking and driving, or rather, where not to, were also a focus of the Tuesday night Bourbon town council meeting.
Council member Gary Collins noted that Parkview Terrace Apartment tenants (at the southeast part of town) living next to the town’s well fields were allowing their guests to park on the grassy area owned by the town. Collins requested that for the safety of the town’s water quality, vehicles not be allowed to park there by council ordinance or that signage be put up to notify offenders that there will be legal repercussions for their actions should they not refrain from parking on that property.
The council agreed. With safety measures nation-wide at a high, town officials did not want to take the chance of water sources becoming compromised.
The second vehicle problem addressed by the council was one regarding the area next to the apartment complex, behind the local car wash. Due to the construction work done in the area in regard to the Center Street Project, an alternate travel route was provided that connected to a private drive, to allow residents that were “trapped” by the work to get through.
Now that the project is complete, some are still using the alternate route which is technically on private and town property. The council decided fencing will be put up on the east end to prevent drivers from using what was intended to be a temporary driveway.
Some phone problems had initiated the seeking of quotes from C&S Communications of Plymouth for new units and a new system for purchase.
“We’ve had some problems with people not being able to leave messages for town employees,” explained clerk-treasurer Kim Berger.
Two systems were reviewed by the council and it was decided that a new system, as opposed to a partially-used one, would be purchased for $6,237. The purchase comes with a 24-month warranty.
    The Matchett Square Senior Center located at 805 N. Harris St. will receive it’s own address numbers to better identify the building and a new sidewalk area, where it was thought “a bad batch” of cement had been laid. Wayne Hanes was selected by the council to do the update for $525.