Council okays chamber request

COLFAX—Colfax City Council approved a Chamber of Commerce request Monday night for $1,840 from the lodging tax fund for website maintenance and design of a new site. The amount covers the annual cost the current website, $240, plus 80 hours of work to build a new site from scratch and do all the linking, Chamber President Nancy Cochran told the council. The chamber would keep the current site up and then “probably” replace it with the new one.

Cochran said the chamber hopes to take over the maintenance costs in a year. Due to the shutdown, the chamber was unable to host the annual events that...