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Parking Banners coming to downtown
Lafayette has long standing issues with lack of public parking in the downtown area. To hopefully help ease the situation, the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Design Committee has designed a parking banner to display on city public parking lots.
These banners were approved by City Council on April 14th. These parking banners are the same size as our existing pole banners, and will be hung at the Bank of Lafayette Community Room on E. Villanow Street, and the Courthouse parking lot below Dr. Levie’s office also on E. Villanow Street. Both of these lots are public parking areas, however many citizens do not realize they are available for their use.
These banners will not replace any of the existing business banners, but will be hung on the opposite sides of the poles at these 2 parking lots. Watch for these new banners to be installed in mid-May.
The Downtown Development Authority meets monthly at Walker-Lafayette library in the board room, the 1st Tuesday night of the month at 6pm. The public is always invited to attend.
CDBG Presentation
The City of Lafayette will be applying for a $500,000 (CDBG) Community Development Block Grant to replace the water main on S. Chattanooga Street from Pattten Street to Pledger Pkwy. This requires a matching of $25,000, and a estimated leverage of $125,000 for the (estimated) project cost of $650,000.
Please email mwilliams@cityoflafayettega.org for more information.
CDBG Presentation
The City of Lafayette will be applying for a $500,000 (CDBG) Community Development Block Grant to replace the water main on S. Chattanooga Street from Pattten Street to Pledger Pkwy. This requires a matching of $25,000, and a estimated leverage of $125,000 for the (estimated) project cost of $650,000.
Please email mwilliams@cityoflafayettega.org for more information.
CDBG Presentation
The City of Lafayette will be applying for a $500,000 (CDBG) Community Development Block Grant to replace the water main on S. Chattanooga Street from Pattten Street to Pledger Pkwy. This requires a matching of $25,000, and a estimated leverage of $125,000 for the (estimated) project cost of $650,000.
Please email mwilliams@cityoflafayettega.org for more information.
CDBG Presentation
The City of Lafayette will be applying for a $500,000 (CDBG) Community Development Block Grant to replace the water main on S. Chattanooga Street from Pattten Street to Pledger Pkwy. This requires a matching of $25,000, and a estimated leverage of $125,000 for the (estimated) project cost of $650,000.
Please email mwilliams@cityoflafayettega.org for more information.
Rambler Baseball Camp Registration
GoFundMe Firetruck Fundraiser
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The City of LaFayette purchased its first motorized fire truck in February, 1926. The fire truck that was purchased for the then exuberant amount of $11,260 was a 1926 American-LaFrance Foamite Type 40 Trip #5534. This mean it was a triple combination pumping, chemical & hose fire engine.
The fire truck that was delivered & remains here at the city today is a 600 gallon fire truck, powered by a 4 cylinder, 75 horsepower engine. It is chain driven, has a hand crank & mechanical brakes. Unlike so many other cities, LaFayette chose to keep its vintage fire truck for the past 88 years. According to the Antique Fire Truck Club of America, only 120 Type 40 Trip’s were ever built, making our very own city fire truck exceedingly rare.
While the truck has remained in good condition & has been kept safely indoors & out of the elements, it is still 88 years old, and like anything of advancing age, it needs some general repairs. The city would like to eventually do a full restoration of our classic fire engine that it so clearly deserves, however at this time we would like to raise enough funds to make old #5534 safe & roadworthy once again.
The city is looking to raise $10,000 for the general repairs which would be used to purchase new tires, have the original wooden wheels repaired/restored & to make other much needed repairs such as rebuilding the starter & carburetor. Because of the advanced age of #5534, parts are rare & don’t come cheap.
The city has created a GO FUND ME account which is way or raising funds online. Interested parties can donate funds from $1-$10,000 to contribute to the cause. The funds will be placed in a WEPAY Account (similar to a PAYPAL) account, and moved over to a city bank account, where the repairs can begin. You can check out the Go FUND ME campaign at http://www.gofundme.com/lafayettefiretruck
We would like to have the fire truck running & driving again, where our citizens can enjoy it & appreciate this rare asset that has been here since new.
If you have questions about the fire truck, or the campaign, please email mwilliams@cityoflafayettega.org
Marsh House Christmas Ornaments!
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The 2014 Marsh House Christmas Ornaments are here!
These porcelain ornaments are all limited edition, and are all hand numbered. This is the 3rd ornament in the set of Lafayette’s historical Christmas ornaments. The prior two ornaments ar…e of Gordon Hall & the Presbyterian Church. All 3 of these history filled sites were built in 1836.
These ornaments can be purchased for $15 a piece, or $40 for the set of 3 ornaments.
Get your ornaments while they last at the Walker County Welcome Center (across the street from the Marsh House) or at Debbi’s Flowers on the square.
The ornaments will also be on sale at Gordon Hall during the model railroad & village display from 6-10pm on December 5th, 13th-31st nightly.
These ornaments are a DDA project, and all ornament proceeds go back into DDA projects in your community.
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