“I’m going to ask council to reconsider that decision.” “I want to say something last Wednesday but I kept my council,” said Mayor John Rodriguez after requesting the motion to approve the June 20 priorities meeting be pulled from the consent agenda. There was considerable debate about the sign program that started at a priorities meeting May 16, with changes introduced at a June 20 meeting, followed by the mayor making a last ditch appeal at the June 27 city council meeting to change the “hamlet” signs.
The sign program will be maintained by the Parks and Traffic departments. “That’s my alibi I guess,” he joked after staff confirmed he was right.Īn additional $25,000 for annual operating expenses and $10,000 annually to be put into reserves for sign replacements will be built into the 2008 budget. Knowing taxpayers might question the city spending this much money on the new program, Ward 7 Councillor Russ Thompson asked for staff assurance that the $235,000 had been set aside specifically for community signage and couldn’t be used on any other project. The total cost of the project is $265,000, with $235,000 provided by the Transition Board which is part of the 2006 Growth and Development Capital Budget, and the remaining $30,000 coming out of the Infrastructure Department in the form of “in-kind assistance with installation costs.”
There will also be about 60 “hamlet” signs placed near areas that have their own postal codes and 18 existing “community” signs will be refurbished, and in some cases, moved because they’re located on Ministry of Transportation land. Greater Sudbury residents will soon be humming along to the immortal lyrics of a Five Man Electrical Band song: “Sign, sign, everywhere a sign.”Ĭity council recently approved a plan that will see five bold new “decorative city welcome signs” that will be placed at each of the major highway entrances and at the entrance to the Greater Sudbury Airport.
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