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Council backs pilot Portland Loo downtown and moves funds for traffic-signal upgrades
Summary
Fort Wayne City Council gave a due-pass recommendation to an ordinance that would appropriate $280,000 to pilot one Portland Loo downtown and $1.3 million toward traffic-signal controller upgrades, with a 9-0 committee vote and plans for public bidding and monitoring.
Fort Wayne City Council’s finance committee voted to give a due-pass recommendation for an ordinance (A250124) that would appropriate $280,000 from the general fund to purchase and install one Portland Loo public restroom and $1.3 million from the cumulative capital development fund toward a traffic-signal controller project.
The proposal, presented in committee by Kelly Lundberg of the Office of Housing and Neighborhood Services and by Valerie R., deputy controller, outlines a pilot restroom sited on Barr Street, between Wayne and Washington streets, and a separate upgrade program for signal controllers citywide.
Kelly Lundberg said Community Development staff have spent a year consulting downtown business groups and other stakeholders and returned with specific locations, engineering estimates and a maintenance plan. “Community Development staff have been attending meetings for the last year with our downtown business community,” Lundberg said, and she…
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