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Residents urge council to keep restored Coca‑Cola mural after city issues RFP to give it away
Summary
Speakers told council an RFP released July 3 would allow the city to give away and pay to remove a restored historic Coca‑Cola mural; residents and members of the Historic Preservation Board said the city promised oversight and maintenance after restoration and asked council to keep and more actively conserve the sign.
Several residents urged the Lafayette City Council on Aug. 5 to keep and actively maintain a restored historic Coca‑Cola mural that the city has placed in an RFP that allows another party to take the sign out of town and receive reimbursement for removal.
Vicki Eland said the mural — described in testimony as the "Pat and Garth's Highway Bar Coca‑Cola sign" — was unearthed in 2015 during demolition, funded in part by…
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