Downtown Lighting Project Advances
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Downtown merchants, concerned about the safety of employees and customers at night, prompted the City Council this week to move forward with a $590,103 project that will improve lighting in the area.
The council unanimously agreed to hire CDC Engineering Inc. of Irvine for nearly $47,000 to design the project.
The city will start construction next year, William Huber, director of building and engineering, said.
The project will be stretched over a four-year period because the city doesn’t have enough money to complete all the work immediately. About $150,000 a year will be earmarked to cover the project, which will dot the downtown with 61 forest-green, acorn-style light poles with glass globes.
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