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Lock Haven council to ask PennDOT about wooden banner, approves events, grants and ordinances

Lock Haven City Council · June 8, 2021
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Summary

Council directed staff to ask PennDOT whether a donated wooden American flag banner may be installed and approved several items including temporary street closures for a rally, a Relay for Life banner request, rejection of landscaping bids, passage of an ordinance clarifying utility collection procedures, authorization for street patching and engaging Firehouse Grants to apply for a FEMA apparatus grant.

Lock Haven City Council used its June meeting to advance several administrative and event items and to seek regulatory guidance from PennDOT on a citizen’s proposal to hang a donated wooden American flag over downtown.

During the public-comment period resident Terry Banfield offered to donate a wooden American flag he said measures 10 by 20 inches, about 1½ inches thick and weighs roughly 15 pounds. Banfield asked that the city place the flag on the cable run near Mill Street; city staff recommended and council approved directing staff to contact PennDOT and the PennDOT banner bureau to confirm whether a wooden flag and an additional banner location would be permissible under state rules and the…

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