Restored DTM Chairs Discovered in City Storage

A recent C-ville Weekly article seemed to suggest that if we wanted more chairs like the ones on the DTM the City would have to order new ones:

C-Ville Weekly: “…According to [City spokesperson Brian] Wheeler, if the community wanted to add more wooden chairs to the mall, or even “a different type of bench that was much longer, [that] you could lay down on,” the proposal would have to approved by the BAR.

The city would also have to allocate a significant amount of funding for the seating, says Wheeler. He estimates the wooden chairs on the mall cost $1,200 to $1,500 each, and says they are expensive to maintain….”

But, as the DTM just discovered, there are 16 beautifully restored mall chairs [not new ones] stored in a shipping container at the Parks & Rec facility at Pen Park. Another 10 unrestored chairs are stacked in a poll shed. Apparently the restoration of the chairs was ordered about a year ago. So why haven’t they been placed on the downtown mall?

According to minutes from a Febr…