Ferriday &8212; The $5,000 in grant money Wal-Mart is giving Ferriday upon its departure will go to a Pee Wee football team.

The Ferriday Board of Aldermen voted Tuesday to allocate the money to a proposed team for 8- to 10-year-olds.

The team has a guaranteed 66 children who want to play, and could include up to 86 children, alderman Glenn Henderson said.

&8220;I&8217;ve been looking, and other towns have Pee Wee football teams,&8221; Henderson said. &8220;We don&8217;t want to be 10 years behind on this.&8221;

The board allocated $3,200 to organizing a team in August. Since then, Henderson said, they have had more interest from children and less support from local businesses than expected.

Mayor Gene Allen also suggested they bring in the parish&8217;s recreation district to help. The board has received very little response from the district in the past, Henderson said.

&8220;You and I both know we can&8217;t wait on the recreation district,&8221; Henderson said. &8220;If the recreation district would like to participate, we&8217;ll share the burden.&8221;

Also at the meeting, the board voted to seek bids for new aerators for the water treatment plant.

&8220;(The aerators) have been torn up,&8221; Allen said. &8220;We&8217;ve been repairing them and repairing them. We&8217;ll get bids from everybody and then come back to the board.&8221;

After an executive session, the board voted to ask the district attorney for an extension regarding a subpoena for all Ferriday Police tickets written under Allen, Town Clerk Shannon Beatty said.

The board cited personnel being out sick and an ongoing audit as reasons for an extension.

In other business:

4 The board approved a circus to operate Sept. 30 on a town lot on Louisiana 15.

4 The board decided to consider renaming Smith Street, within town limits, because it conflicts with Smith Lane, outside city limits, and could cause confusion in case of an emergency.

4Alderman Johnnie Brown suggested building a juvenile institution to help the town&8217;s economy.

&8220;It doesn&8217;t have to be a juvenile prison, but it needs to be something that will bring in badly needed funding for our community,&8221; Brown said.