No one knows the condition of the Dover, Tennessee City Hall Building (or town hall building).
If anyone knows, they are not saying.
Dover City Council met in regular session tonight and there was not a word about the issues with the town hall building. No update from anyone. No questions. No reports. Nothing.
Once again the Dover City Council held its regular monthly meeting and there was no status report on the ongoing engineering inspection of the facility. There was no report, not update, no questions, nothing .. not one word or even peep. This is the second month in a row there was absolutely no mention of the the inspection of the structural integrity of the mid-1990s era building. Officials say a report on the building is coming soon .. but they do not say when. And usually in the meetings I have gone to in other places during my career, when you have something as significant as this as an unanswered question about possibly the biggest, most identifiable icon of your municipality, you would at least say .. the engineers are working on the report, but we do not have any information yet. At least that… but not even that. Several months ago interim Dover City Administrator Charles Parks brought up the fact that some of the doors and windows of city hall do not open and close properly, there are cracks in some of the walls of the building, bricks are falling off in places, there is a large, gaping crack in the bricks at the drive up window and it seems the city hall building is pulling away from the foundation. Parks asked for up to four thousand dollars for the city engineer to start the process of seeing how bad the structural problems are or could be with the building. The city engineer hired a structural engineer and they drilled several ‘pilot holes’ to see what is going on and as of yet .. no word. Dover Mayor Lesa Fitzhugh said after the meeting she would not want to guess at what it is going to cost to fix the building, once the report comes in. “I would not want to overestimate or underestimate what it might cost,” she said. So I guess we will wait on the report. It might be coming soon …
This story will update ……….
Wondering if you should interview a secretary? The one at schools maintenance seemed to know more than officials would say about the diesel gusher…