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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1988 <br /> <br /> City Manager Brown recommended that, in addition to providing for (i.e., <br /> painting) two crosswalks on Rives Road in the plant area and providing'warning <br /> signs, the City construct sidewalks (consisting of approximately 600 feet) along <br /> <br /> both sides of Rives Road in that area, at an estimated cost of $7,300!~0~-,.. and <br /> <br />'install (with the City of maintain) a four-way traffic-actuated signal (with a <br /> pedestrian phase).at the main entrance to the-plant, at an estimated cost of <br /> $10,000.00. City Manager Brown pointed out that, while the foregoing <br /> improvements do not'constitute a real'solution to the traffic-and-safety <br /> problems (and that the final solution rests with four-laning Rives Road at some <br /> point in the future), said improvements should ameliorate present conditions. <br /> While recognizing the extent of these traffic-and-safety problems as well as <br /> their pre-extstence, Councilman McClain inquired as to the urgency the City <br /> Manager now (after many years) attaches to the proposal rather than recommend <br /> same in his 1988-89 proposed City Budget. Mr. McClain,. also, inquired as to <br /> why, pending completion of the proposed improvements, W. M. Bassett Furnit.ure <br /> Company can not or does not assign one or more of its security guards to <br /> traffic control, as does Bassett-Walker, Inc., for its employee traffic <br /> entering Rives Road (outside the City) near Smith River. Mr. McClain, too, <br /> expressed his concerns with appropriating (i.e., amending the budget) funds <br /> during the current fiscal year. Vice-Mayor Willjams indicated his concurrence, <br /> somewhat, with Councilman McClain's viewpoints but also expressed concerns with <br /> injury possibilities, whereas Mayor Oakes (noting that he has been in attendance <br /> at one or more of the conferences on this matter as well as in meetings with <br /> officials of various local industries in efforts to maintain or improve <br /> relations between the City and said industries) urged that Council accept the <br /> Manager's recommendations. Councilman Coi~e, while aware of the probability that <br /> the traffic-and-safety problems, without some solutions, will become worse, <br /> <br /> <br />