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Residents, veterans groups ask council to help with veteran services, historic recognition and neighborhood traffic safety
Summary
Public commenters including the VFW Auxiliary and Historical Preservation Commission urged the council to promote veteran services and historic preservation; a Mauriceville resident requested an engineering study and temporary speed bumps on Alley Payne Road to address high-speed traffic.
Several residents and representatives of veterans and historic-preservation groups addressed the City Council during the public-comment period on Feb. 25.
Mary Snap (VFW Auxiliary president) told council the auxiliary will host an open forum for surviving spouses and veterans on a March morning from 9 to 11 a.m., with legal-services representatives from Beaumont, funeral-home representatives and an Orange County caseworker available to answer benefit-related questions. She asked the city to help spread the word about the event.
Candace Bilbo, event coordinator for the VFW in Orange, described a March 8 community event with live music, food and more than 80 vendors and said the VFW donates 50% of its event fees to veterans through the auxiliary.
Representatives of the Historical Preservation Commission — Bob Manning and Kenneth Wheeler — reported on commission projects: recognizing businesses and organizations for long-term historical provenance (examples: 75- and 100-year recognitions), planning a “hometown heroes” banner program to honor veterans and first responders around Veterans Day, and offering dated house signs (available through the county organization at a cost noted on the record as about $55) for owners who want to mark the year a residence was built.
Resident Caitlin Revere, who said she lives at 3409 Alley Payne Road, asked the council to direct an engineering study for Alley Payne to address repeated high-speed driving. Revere said a police officer made four traffic stops within 30 minutes the same day and requested the city consider temporary speed bumps paid for by residents while developer repairs are pending.
Council closed public comments and said staff will follow up with commenters and the appropriate councilmembers after the meeting.
