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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
DAVENPORT – Council’s regular April 28 meeting kicked off with a public hearing to revise the six-year street plan to include a solar illuminate crosswalk sign on Morgan Street that the city hopes to complete in 2021. The tentative funding source would be a mix between Surface Transportation Block Grants and the city and would cost $65,000.
Council later approved the resolution for revising the plan under new business after no one spoke during the public hearing.
Sergeant Gabe Gants shared that there are currently three officers assigned to Davenport from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office: himself, Jerad McLagan and Dan Christian. He said the sheriff’s office is currently short staffed. One officer is currently in the police academy and likely won’t be ready to do a solo shift until September, one quit and one is out on medical leave.
Council related concerns to Gants about speeding cars blowing through stop signs as schoolchildren arrived at school and left school. Specific points of concern were at Main and 8th Streets and Main and 7th Streets.
Councilmember Theresa Telford said she notices parents speed more in the mornings, and students speed more in the afternoons. Gants said the sheriff’s office would add some patrols in the area.
Before council’s meeting, the cemetery/park committee met to review two proposals to buy the skate park property. The discussion brought up the talk of possibly improving the skate park, and if the city decides to sell, possibly moving it to the baseball field. Keeping it closer to town near the fire house would also be an option. Council asked city administrator Steve Goemmel to look into estimates for funding both options.
A local resident asked council to consider changing city code that allows chain link fences to only be up to 42 inches. He noted he and his wife were building a fence and hoped to make the fence 48 inches.
During new business, council changed the municipal code to raise the maximum fence height limit to 48 inches.
Council also approved allotting $2,000 in tourism tax funding to the Lincoln Historical Society for museum upkeep. Mayor Brad Sweet and Goemmel were also authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Department of Transportation-Aviation Division so grants could be prepared for helping to fund airport projects.
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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