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City explains phased street sign replacements tied to $3 million 2nd Street grant
Summary
Public Works Director said districts 5 and 6 are complete, district 7 is in progress and crew will shift to downtown (District 10) to coincide with a $3 million 2nd Street beautification grant; coring machines will be used to set signs per new city standards.
Public Works Director Hahn updated the council on a phased program to replace Selma’s street and downtown signage.
Hahn said Districts 5 and 6 were completed in the prior fiscal year, District 7 is currently being worked on and crews will shift to District 10 (downtown) to coordinate with the 2nd Street beautification project, which the mayor and staff described as a $3,000,000 grant. Hahn told council that older signs often sit in dirt behind sidewalks and that a new coring machine will enable crews to install posts in the sidewalk per city standards. "We now have a coring machine and we're putting them in the sidewalk per city standards so that they're not people's front yard," Hahn said.
Council members asked about timelines and whether downtown work could be timed for the city's band festival in October; Hahn said targeting that event is a reasonable projection but gave no firm guarantee. He said the sign program will also transition to speed limit, truck‑route and cautionary signage after street‑name signs are complete and that staff are balancing sign shop labor with other near‑term projects such as crosswalk flashers and crack sealing.
