Our next downtown planning meeting is on Wednesday, April 26^th at 6:00pm in the council chamber at the Municipal Building.  At this meeting we’re going to talk about and hopefully come up with a direction for street lighting and some of the other visual elements in the downtown for the 2024 reconstruction project.  The cost for some of these elements are not cheap, so I’m really encouraging as many people and especially downtown business/property stakeholders to attend and be part of this conversation.  For example we may end up not installing an architectural style light because of the cost, but if that’s the route we take I really would like some public dialogue at this meeting to be part of that direction.  It will be a challenging decision for the council whether to go basic and save tax payer money or spend the extra finances on these visual improvements to give the downtown some personality.  The council many times have commented that they would like to know what people think so this will be a great opportunity to be part of that development.   We probably only have one chance for these exciting downtown changes in our lifetime so I’d like as much input on this discussion as possible.  Feel free to pass the word to your downtown neighbors!