Eldorado street signs a DIY project

The Eldorado street sign that needs replacing most often is "High Street."

Draw your own conclusions.

"We replace it the most," said City Clerk Stacy James Thursday.

The city is replacing all its street signs and stop signs. The stop signs are funded by grants. The city is on its own with the street signs.

"The older folk were complaining they could not read them at night and that an ambulance would have trouble when responding to a 911 call," said Doug "Shag" Williams of the Eldorado Street and Alley Department.

Williams and his assistant Jeff Edwards hang the signs when city hall gets a bunch printed. Stacy James is the leader of the printing crew.

The late Eldorado City Councilman Jim Morris and J.B. James, director of the Street and Alley Department, decided in 2012 to replace the old signs with newer and better signs. For this purpose the city purchased a sign printer and the city clerk was put in charge of the printing operation. There are savings to be had with do-it-yourself sign printing.

"It is only slightly cheaper to print our own. But it is a whole lot more convenient," she said.

The project, which began printing signs in April of 2013 when the printer was purchased, is about 25 percent finished James said.

"We want to do 100 a year," she said. "We are keeping up with that goal."

"There are other higher priority projects and we hang signs when nothing else is happening," said Williams. "Right now we are caught up."

The city buys new more reflective blank signs and then prints the adhesive lettering that is then affixed to the blank signs.

"These new signs are much easier to read at night," said Edwards.