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Yorkville replacing digital sign boards at cost of $66,500 · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville replacing digital signboards at cost of sixty six five
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Written by Joey Weslow, This article is being
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  Speaker 1: To keep residents engaged with fresh, up to date information,
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  Speaker 1: The City of Yorkville is purchasing and installing two new
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  Speaker 1: digital led messaging boards. The boards are being installed at
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  Speaker 1: town Square and City Hall. Tim Evans, director of Parks
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  Speaker 1: and Recreation, said the new boards will really grab attention
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  Speaker 1: of residents. He said it was time to replace the
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  Speaker 1: previous two boards. The current one in town Square is
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years old, and even though it's still running very well,
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  Speaker 1: we are running into issues with parts as well as
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  Speaker 1: the software, Evan said during the April fourteenth City Council meeting.
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  Speaker 1: The software is becoming obsolete and it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: very hard for us to communicate with the board. Evans said.
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  Speaker 1: The new digital boards come with the highest quality graphic image.
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  Speaker 1: The city Council approved a sixty six thousand, five hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars contract for the two digital boards with Boyd signs
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  Speaker 1: and graphics from Ottawa. It also approved refacing and modifying
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  Speaker 1: the existing monument sign outside city Hall for forty nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars with Aurora Sinco. City staff is installing both
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  Speaker 1: digital boards at a cost of eighty five hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 1: According to city documents. The digital boards are controlled remotely
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  Speaker 1: by city Hall through the Parks and Recreation staff computers.
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  Speaker 1: The current sign that is being refaced outside city halls
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  Speaker 1: the city lays the city logo, the city government, the
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  Speaker 1: Parks and Recreation Department, Community Development, and the Yorkville Police Department.
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  Speaker 1: Alderman Chris Funkhauser asked if the city is also looking
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  Speaker 1: to replace the sign at East Countryside. City staff said
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  Speaker 1: the city would need permission from the tenants of that
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  Speaker 1: subdivision before updating that specific sign. H