The city council meeting held Monday night included several meaningful discussion that showed progress towards transformation into a 21st century visitor-friendly community. Ellinwood community member Rob Dove was part of a task force assigned to a 2016 community exchange with Cimarron. Both communities sent a delegation from their community to the other in order to gather impressions and suggestions for improvements that would make their cities more visitor friendly. The Cimarron delegation determined it would be difficult for visitors to discern what attractions or features the city contained, or how to get to key locations. Dove agreed to research appropriate signage and his presentation was the culmination of those efforts.
Dove visited communities from Barton County to Columbia, Mo. It was his conclusion that the style of Great Bend’s wayfinding signs were the best, and recommended Ellinwood go with a similar option for a series of signs designating where the parks, the Splash Pad and pool, cemetery, and other city buildings were located.
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