Salida City Council will host their work session starting at 6:00 p.m. on June 14. Discussion items include a presentation by the Extraordinary Teen Council (ETC). Currently, Jessie Rollins is the ETC representative and she will present information on student feedback as it relates to the school’s Student Resource Officer.
Barriers painted by local artists at the intersection of F Street and West Sackett Avenue. Photo by Brooke Gilmore.
Council will then discuss an update on the F Street Plaza, which closes a two-block portion of the street for the summer as pedestrian-only. Following the last City Council meeting, staff attended the Salida Business Alliance meeting on May 20, where membership identified a number of options to support businesses that are not in the two-block plaza area. The proposal appeared to be gaining support. These items include:
- Feather Flags for Businesses – possibly utilizing a color-coordinated system to identify business type and identifying which ones are open.
- Friday Night Hours Extension – creating a grant program for businesses that stay open additional hours on Fridays between June and August (between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.) to offset employee and overhead/maintenance costs for being open during times in which restaurants are drawing more people downtown.
- Planters instead of concrete barricades – this has already been deployed throughout downtown, including new planters with flowers that are located between 2nd and 3rd Streets.
In reading the City Council’s reaction to the brief discussion on June 1, it is clear that policymakers have listened to business input to also close half of the 200 block of F Street to vehicular traffic. Staff will close half the street on a trial basis for the month of July, and attempt to implement the new partial closure the week prior to the July Fourth holiday; hopefully starting on June 28.
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