The Seymour Board of Public Works met for a regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday morning at city hall.
The majority of new business items on the agenda were in regard to food trucks and events, all of which the board unanimously approved.
Junkyard BBQ will be set up in the Walnut Street Parking Lot (the site of the Farmers Market) from 5 to 8 p.m. May 15. Chick-fil-A will have a food truck in the lot on May 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24 and 31, as well as on June 13. On each date, the truck will be open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.
The Farmers Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon Wednesdays and Saturdays from May 25 to September 28. Additionally, the Farmers Market will be hosting a Mother’s Day event from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. May 11, the day before Mother’s Day.
On Aug. 17 — the day after Scoop the Loop — the south side of St. Louis Avenue will be closed and barricaded for picnic tables and various food trucks, including Junkyard BBQ, Spud Bank, Mark and Beth’s Smalltown Sweets and GrillO’s Authentic Mexican Food. The block also will be closed the night before for the car show.
Also, Justin and Lauren Earl of Humble Joe’s Coffee Company had a mobile food truck license approved by the board and there will be an appreciation picnic for Seymour Meals on Wheels volunteers at Crossroads Park from 3 to 9 p.m. June 19.
Chad Keithly, director of the Seymour Parks and Recreation Department, announced the city pool’s opening date will be May 25. Keithly also told the board the department has received a $20,000 grant through the Jackson County Visitor Center for lighting projects in the city’s parks. In addition, Keithly announced three parks employees have become certified pool operators, including himself, Rick Phillips and Kerry Bevers.
“I’ve done a lot of training — hazmat, CDL, things like that — and this is probably one of the toughest courses I’ve ever taken,” Keithly said. “(After the course) it’s a fifty-question test, you get three hours to take it and it took me two hours and forty-five minutes.”
The city board of public works and safety meets every second and fourth Thursdays at 11 a.m. in the council chambers at city hall, 301-309 N. Chestnut St., Seymour.