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Sunman council agrees to finish $5,000 downtown sign payment, will seek grant for $80,000 park-lighting project
Summary
The Sunman Town Council approved using $2,500 from water and $2,500 from wastewater to complete a $5,000 digital-sign payment and will preserve larger grant eligibility to fund an estimated $80,000 replacement of park light poles, officials said at the February meeting.
Sunman's town council agreed to cover the remaining $5,000 needed to install a downtown digital sign and to pursue larger grant funding for a separate park-light replacement project.
Councilors discussed funding the sign and whether to reserve the town's large-grant application for an estimated $80,000 project to replace aging, leaning park light poles. A council member moved to take $2,500 from the water fund and $2,500 from the wastewater fund to finish paying for the sign; the motion was seconded and carried as recorded in the meeting narrative (no roll-call tallies were included in the transcript).
The council's rationale was to keep the grant application cycle available for the larger park-lighting project while using water and wastewater reserves to cover the sign's small remaining balance. In explaining the plan, a council member said, "So I'll make a motion to take 2500 from water and 2500 from wastewater to finish paying for the sign and we go after the grant for the park lights." Staff confirmed the grant cycle for larger awards will not align with the sign timeline, so the sign payment was moved from departmental funds.
Councilors noted the park-lighting effort could require multiple funding sources; staff estimated replacing the park poles at about $80,000 and said pursuing a large grant for that work made fiscal sense. The council directed staff to proceed with the sign payment from the specified funds and to prepare grant materials for the park-lighting project.
No formal vote tally appears in the meeting transcript; the motion was made and seconded and the council proceeded. The next steps listed by councilors were to complete the sign payment, submit the grant application for park lights, and report back at a future meeting.
