City seeks signage grant funding

Residents and visitors alike may have an easier time navigating Green River if it receives a grant to help pay for the placement of directional signs throughout the city.

Last night, the Green River City Council voted to apply for up to $25,000 from the Wyoming Business Council’s Business Ready Community Planning Grant.

Signs and way finding in Green River isn’t a new issue. The problem with navigating to certain locations was identified in the city’s “Blue Canopy” study and action plan, as well as the city’s strategic plan originally developed in 2013. According to the city’s grants manager, Misty Springer, the city was prepared to vote on a similar grant last year, but the proposal was tabled during a meeting in February 2014 and never revisited. With the new mayor, city administrator and council taking office in 2015, the idea was resurrected in time to apply for Wyoming Business Council’s yearly Business Ready Community grants.

The project is estimated to cost $183,800, though a professional quote hasn’t been obtained yet. Of that, the city plans fund $91,900 of the cost -- which amounts to 50 percent of the total. While the city continues to face budgetary shortfalls, $39,000 of that amount was previously budgeted for signage in 2012.

Springer also said the city originally intended to use in-kind work from the city’s streets and parks departments, but decided to increase cash funding due to scheduling conflicts that could have drawn-out sign placement work over two or more summer seasons. She said the fear was smaller signs that would be handled by the city would have been placed after the large signs were installed by a professional sign company. Both the streets and parks departments tend to be busier in the summer and sign erection is much easier to complete during warmer months, limiting work to an already busy season.

 

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