SEQUIM — ‘Tis the season to be planning.
The City Council has been asked by representatives from the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce to start thinking about next Christmas — and the decorations they say the city needs to replace the ones they have.
The sticking point is a projected price tag of $30,000 to replace them all.
For several years the city has placed festive adornments atop light posts in its shopping zone at the heart of downtown.
But with a $4 million reconstruction and beautification project under way, those are no longer usable, said chamber president Emily Westcott.
“You’ve got new light standards going in, and the decorations we’ve got just won’t work,” Westcott told the council Wednesday at its study session.
Both Westcott and chamber Executive Director Marny Hannan admitted that was “quite a bit of money,” and delivered more bad news: The chamber’s budget isn’t going to cover it.
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The rest of the story appears in the Monday Peninsula Daily News.