Meeting for the first time in new council chambers at 353 South Broadway, the Stanley Common Council voted Monday to approve engineering services for $12,000 through Ratsch Engineering of Neillsville.

The vote in regular council following a review in the Committee of the Whole, will keep the process moving forward towards a potential storage/bathroom/pavilion area on the site of the old depot, as the city seeks to use insurance rather than tax dollars for a replacement.

Insurance was for storage, the depot building’s use as at the time of the tornado.

With plans still fluid and a 10 percent price estimate hike kicking in after the new year for materials, the site would see storage towards the back with seasonal bathrooms towards the front, as it was noted that year round would require heat and complicate the process.

As to the building, it would be wood, of variable size, depending on cost estimates and price hikes in relation to the prospective new construction. The earliest a building would rise on the site is next year, a masonry wall as memorial also envisioned.