The City of Thomasville offered to help but made no specific promises to leaders of the Thomasville High School band Monday night.

Band director Jarrell Allen told the council that the band had been using the same uniforms for about 10 years and that it was time to replace them. The cost of replacing the uniforms is estimated to run about $30,000.

"We've been doing fundraisers and have more planned," Allen said. "But we were here to see if the council could also help us."

Mayor Sheldon Day said the city had some contingency plan money for unforeseen events and would be willing to help, and asked when the band would need to order the uniforms.

Allen said to have the uniforms ready for next football season, the would have to order them in February and have half of the money up front and pay half within 30 days of the order.

Day said the council should be willing to help and asked Allen and the band boosters to continue their fundraising efforts and come back to the council in January when it had a better idea of how much help they might need from the council to buy the new uniforms.

In other business, the council appointed Dr. Jerry Schreiner to fill the seat on the Thomasville City School Board vacated by Karen Bradford. Bradford must leave the seat after winning election to the Clarke County Board of Commissioners.

Day reported that there has been a rash of reports from other communities of people apparently being followed to the banks when making night deposits. Day said interim police chief Adam Gunter encourages Thomasville citizens to call for a police escort if making a night deposit if they are at all concerned about safety.

Day also said garbage pickup on Thursdays and Fridays around Christmas and New Year will run one day late.

He reported that he and Thomasville economic developer Dottie Gaston attended talks between Louisiana-Pacific officials and the county this week. While not discussing specifics, Day said he and Gaston encouraged both sides to continue working together.

Day said on a recent trip to Washington D.C. he presented three projects to our representatives for consideration if more federal stimulus programs were to come down: storm water improvements, the new library building and building a new road connecting the south industrial park to Gates Drive.