Chamber seeks $2,000 donation from city

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Following an earlier funding appeal to the Monticello City Council by a representative of the chamber of commerce, Executive Director Amy McDaniel recently reiterated the group’s request. McDaniel reminded the council on Tuesday, Jan. 7, that a few months earlier, Floyd Faglie, the chamber’s past president, had approached the officials with a request for a $2,000 donation. Her purpose for approaching the council again, she said, was to follow up on Faglie’s request. McDaniel noted that it was no longer that case that the Tourist Development Council (TDC) was under the chamber’s umbrella, as the county had reclaimed the organization in 2023, al