Several bucks and a few does take a rest earlier this summer alongside the small pond in the deer pen at City Park. (Betsy Bloom/Daily News photo, file)

IRON MOUNTAIN — Improvements at a cost roughly estimated at $20,000 are needed to keep Iron Mountain’s deer pen open, plus whatever fees are charged for services provided by an attending veterinarian.

Iron Mountain City Council received that information Monday as it moved closer to determining the pen’s fate. Mayor Dale Alessandrini described the city’s deliberations as “a work in progress” and said he wants to make his decision “based on what I hear from constituents in Iron Mountain.”

The herd has been a City Park attraction since at least the 1940s, but the council is under orders from a U.S. Department of Agriculture official to cor

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