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Moulton Advertiser | C'land town council meets at Courtland Heritage Museum

February 7, 2013

C’land town council meets at Courtland Heritage Museum
By Ginger Grantham | Moulton Advertiser | February 7, 2013

The Courtland Town Council met at the Courtland Heritage Museum for a work session and a yearly report on the museum.

Museum Board President Robbie Rebman said attendance at the museum almost doubled from 2011 to 2012 with 2012 visitors numbering 918.

"It is estimated that at least 30 percent of visitors do not sign the guest book," Rebman said.

Having the museum open on Friday and Saturday manned by Docent Rudy McCarley had helped get attendance up. Attendance always increases when the town has special events like the Picnic, Parade and Pageant in the Park in June and the car show in October.

He went on to say that the goal of the Board is for the museum to be self-supporting through grants and donations.

"We need more display cases and we need more items to display," Rebman said.

The Museum Board supports and is a participant of the National Heritage plan being developed for six North Alabama counties with the hopes of improving tourism. More Museum brochures were printed and distributed across North Alabama by the Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourism Association.

On the topic of tourism, McCarley suggested the possibility of having music on the town square in the evening and not just for special events.

"Other towns have music maybe one evening a week," he said.

The museum provided refreshments and Board members were on hand to informally answer any questions councilmembers might have about the museum.

In other business discussed, the council will sell surplus property after a vote is taken at the regular meeting. The items to be sold include three mowers and a tractor. The town plans to take bids on Cushman cart.

Two employees of the town electric department will attend school in March in Auburn. The workshop will be additional training for maintenance and construction of the town's electric department.

Courtland has long sought financial help with the repair and replacement of three bridges the state turned over to the town. That topic was again discussed.

"Maybe we could talk to Congressman Robert Aderholt about getting federal help," Councilmember Randy Alexander said. "Explain to him that we can't get a fire truck or school bus across those three bridges."

Council members also discussed the need to attract businesses to the town square.

The next scheduled meeting is set for Monday, Feb. 18. That was changed because several members of the council will be involved in a church revival.

The next meeting will be on Monday, Feb. 11.

Present at the meeting were Mayor Clarence Logston and Councilmembers Edna Redd, Jeff Coffey, Bettie Hollis, Karen Hitt and Randy Alexander.

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