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County sign shop describes production process, quick-turn printing and roadside maintenance
Summary
A county staff member outlined San Bernardino County’s sign manufacturing and maintenance operations, including sign types, printing technology that enabled same-day production, and the geographic scope of county-maintained roads.
A county staff member described how San Bernardino County produces and maintains roadway signs across a wide area of the county, saying the shop both manufactures signs and responds to field emergencies.
Speaker 2, a county staff member, told the meeting, “Our overall mission is to keep the motoring public safe more than anything.” He described the county’s maintenance area as extending “from here to Needles and then going up north to Trona” for county-maintained roads and said the shop makes four different types of signs: guide (street name) signs, construction signs, warning signs and regulatory signs such as speed limits.
The staff member explained the shop’s production steps: “We start with the flexi design program on the computer, then we transfer the design onto, material, and then we transfer that material to an aluminum blank.” He described a final protective covering — noted in the transcript as “11 60” — that prolongs sign life in desert sun and allows graffiti to be wiped off without damaging the sign. The speaker also said advances in printing technology have shortened lead times: “With the HP Latex printers, that has, like, really opened things up as far as, like, the possibilities of making more custom signs. Instead of sending it to a company, it'll take, you know, weeks, 2 weeks right now. We can just do it today and have it ready.”
The staff member emphasized field work required after collisions or storm damage: “Life happens. In accident that takes out a stop sign. These guys have to go out there in windy conditions when it's super hot, a 10 degrees out there, they have to be there to replace the sign.” The shop representative also noted that the county now does about 99% of sign production in-house compared with manual assembly in the past.
Remarks combined technical detail about production with practical notes on maintenance and replacement; no vote or formal Board action was recorded in the transcript excerpt.
