FERRIDAY &8212; Mayor Gene Allen was forced by the Ferriday Board of Aldermen to submit a check for $8,100 Tuesday evening.

The check, aldermen Johnnie Brown and Glen Henderson said, was supposed to be given to them two months ago to pay for football equipment the town would buy for a town peewee league.

&8220;You (Mayor Allen) failed us by not giving the board the check as was the agreement in the first ordinance,&8221; Henderson said.

Although he did write the check, Allen said he placed it in the town&8217;s vault because he first wanted to receive documentation that the town indeed had a football league and he wanted to know how many children would be joining the league, thus know how much equipment to buy.

&8220;I didn&8217;t want to give the taxpayers&8217; money away and not have them aware of what it&8217;s being used for,&8221; Allen said. &8220;I just don&8217;t feel comfortable doing that.&8221;

But the board passed a new resolution requiring Allen to give the check to the board&8217;s recreation committee (Henderson and Brown) within 15 days.

In other business:

4 The board passed a resolution to rename Smith Street to Susie Jackson Street.

4 The board passed a resolution to approve a one-time supplemental pay raise of $250 to the city employees for the month of December, only to be paid Dec. 1, 2006 by a separate check.

4 The board passed a resolution passed a resolution to have the ditches within the town cleaned of trash and leaves by the public works department within 30 days.

4 The board passed a resolution for cleaning up the town lots that are over grown with weeds and grass within 30 days.

4 The board passed a resolution creating a position for a business consultant and grant writer that would receive a stipend and be paid mileage compensation.

4 The board passed a resolution adopting the Ferriday Junior High gym to be used by the parent-teacher association and Volunteers of America.

4 The board passed a resolution to file a writ of mandamus (a request for a court order) to make the Concordia Parish Sheriff&8217;s Office remove the contents from the Kelly&8217;s Kids building in Ferriday.

4 The board passed a resolution advertise for a new head of Sewer and Sanitation Department.