For $24,000, Riverside will get one complete welcome sign plus all the bricks for all three planned signs. Details were presented to the city council Monday by Jim Leyden of the city’s Community Visioning Committee.
Results of the Community Visioning process showed the need for three signs for the city (east, west and south) and Monday Leyden said that purchasing all the bricks at one time would mean 15 cents per brick, rather than 50 cents each. The $24,000 price tag ( half of the $48,000 original estimate) also gets a lot of landscaping, trees, flowers and grading for the first sign, he noted.
The first sign is on city property; the other two will e on private property, he added. There also will be donated labor and lighting for the signs will be done by Jim Rose at actual cost.
The council approved the move that likely will see the signs done next spring.
The council also received a report from council member Todd Yahnke that the special committee recomends using the $100,000 from Invasion Iowa to purchase a site for a Riverside community building. An ideal site would be land on Schnoebelen Street which would put the building near the Riverside Elementary School.
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