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Nehalem Council backs 4-inch wall plus handrail for 8th Street Safe Routes to School; artwork to be mounted on rail panels
Summary
Facing budget constraints, the Nehalem City Council agreed Jan. 13 to proceed with a 4-inch decorative wall combined with a handrail (potentially hot-dip galvanized schedule 40 pipe) for the 8th Street Safe Routes to School project and suggested mounting community artwork on intermittent handrail panels; restoring a 12-inch wall would cost an estimated $10,000.
The Nehalem City Council on Jan. 13 reached consensus to move forward with a 4-inch decorative wall combined with a handrail for the 8th Street Safe Routes to School project after city engineers identified budget constraints that make the originally planned 12-inch wall unaffordable without additional city funds.
City Manager Lori Longfellow said the city’s engineer advised that budgeted funds would only support a 4-inch wall and that…
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