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City is ready to deck the streets
Quincy council approves holiday decorations
It will soon begin to look a lot more like Christmas in downtown Quincy.
The City Council approved a $7,500 project during its meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18 to purchase more holiday decorations for the downtown area. The Quincy Valley Lions Club is donating $2,000 for the project.
Councilmember Scott Lybbert said the project will include purchasing a lighted “skyline” banner that will stretch across Central Avenue S between D and C streets. The city will also purchase 12 snowflake lighted decorations that will hang from light poles in the central downtown area on Central Avenue and F Street. Grant County PUD has approved the decorations, Lybbert said.
The Quincy Valley Lions Club is also creating snowflake banners that will fit over the centennial banners that hang on poles along F Street.
Lybbert said the city’s cost of the decorations will be paid for out of a fund for council projects.
He said he hopes the decorations will be installed in time for Christmas this year and then they will be displayed annually each holiday season.
Another wintertime activity was discussed during the meeting as the council approved an update to the city’s snow-removal ordinance.
The ordinance calls for property owners to keep their sidewalks and other public rights of way clear of snow and ice.
Also, snow that is removed from private property must not be put into the street or on the sidewalks.
“There is an obligation to clear snow from the sidewalks, but that snow can’t be cleared into the street,” said city attorney Allan Galbraith.
If the city’s public works crew has to remove snow that has been removed from private property onto a public right of way, then the property owner could be charged for the cost for removing the snow.
Public works supervisor Dave Reynolds said there were problems last year from snow plowed on to public rights of way. The large piles of snow created obstructions and led to some flooding. Lybbert said he is concerned that one person trying to be a good neighbor by plowing the sidewalks of a whole neighborhood could cause problems for everyone else.
“How do you charge it?” Lybbert said. “What if they don’t ask for (the snow plowing) and you don’t know who did it?”
Mayor Jim Hemberry said he was sure there would be some problems to be worked out, but the city needed to start doing some enforcing to prevent larger problems.
The council agreed to continue the meeting on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. to discuss the 2009 city budget and also the contract with the Quincy Police Guild.
