By JOHN KOZIOL

Staff Writer

LACONIA — Saying he couldn’t find any partners willing to help with the legwork, Ward 3 Councilor Fred Toll on Monday asked, at least for this year, to scrub plans to generate revenue through the sale of official City of Laconia Bike Week pins and T-shirts. The City Council agreed.

Despite several articles in local newspapers about his proposal to sell the items, which would bear the municipal logo on them, and to split sales proceeds with local non-profits, Toll told the council’s Finance Committee that because none of the groups had contacted him, he was convinced that the idea was "dead in the water."

Toll said it was unlikely that he could sell the commemorative T-shirts and pins by himself.

A volunteer sales force was required, he said, and may be available in the future.

Ward 1 Councilor Paul Bordeau noted that there was "not a whole lot of return" on the sale of Bike Week memorabilia as even the event’s promoter, the Laconia Motorcycle Rally and Race Week Association, reported only modest sales of pins and T-shirts last year.

The City Council later voted unanimously to remove the Bike Week revenue proposal from the Finance Committee’s agenda.