MITCHELL — This way to Lakeview Golf Course.
The Mitchell Golf and Cemetery Board, during its meeting on April 14, chose a design for a new sign at the Lakeview Golf Course clubhouse entrance.
The $19,081 sign is to be 12 feet long by 7 feet tall, and to be made of a durable foam composite material resembling stone and the top is to be a hardshell with a woodgrain look.
The sign for the municipal golf course will be paid for out of the city’s entertainment tax fund, according to Golf and Cemetery Board president Jeff McEntee.
“It did have to meet some city branding requirements, meaning that the logo had to be of a certain font selection,” McEntee said.
The sign will be placed about 10 feet from its original position to the south and east to be in alignment with an electrical pedestal, and it will be farther away from road traffic.
“For the longest time, we thought we had to have the Lakeview arch logo with the flag on it. It was later determined that we didn’t need to have that, so we would like to go with this,” McEntee said.
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It will take about 10 to 12 weeks for the sign to arrive once ordered. The sign will most likely be installed in mid to late July, according to Golf and Cemetery Superintendent Jason Gunnare.
“It’s plain, but classy,” McEntee said.
There are no plans to place spot lights on the sign after dark, though options are available to put solar lights in place as the golf course has done for the golf course flag poles, according to Gunnare.
“We’ll probably have it sloped up a little bit and have some landscaping all the way around,” Gunnare said.
Additionally, the city is opting out of installing a cement pad underneath the sign, which would be an additional $7,100, according to Gunnare. The sign will be at ground level and will display the municipal golf course’s name, address and phone number.
A local property owner has agreed to let the city remove an ash tree to give a better view of the new location for the sign. The city will remove the tree, stump it, and bring the area back to grass.
Installation crews will have to work around an electrical pedestal, a phone line, a gas line and a drainage pipe.
“We’re going to do the best we can with what we have to work with,” Gunnare said.
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The Woodland Heights housing development at Carl Road off Highway 37 south of Walmart in Mitchell also has a composite sign, according to McEntee.
“I thought it was real stone, real wood,” McEntee said, referring to the Woodland Heights sign.
Gunnare presented that golf staff will have to install posts about four feet into the ground for the sign to be installed onto it, but McEntee suggested that Ethan Co-op Lumber do all the work from start to finish.
“That way, if they do the post install and site prep then it’s their issue if something goes wrong,” McEntee said.
An alternate option for the sign, presented to the Golf and Cemetery Board, would have been 10 feet long by 7 feet tall at $17,704. The board agreed that the 12 feet sign was easier to read.
Architect estimates ranged from $20,000 to $40,000 for a new sign, with $20,000 being a very small sign with real masonry, Gunnare said.
The city budgeted $20,000 to replace the sign, which is along North Ohlman Street.
Presently, the municipal golf course’s entrance sign is weather-beaten and is a plywood sheet with wood tacked on at an angle with raised letters, on two telephone poles. The sign is 8 feet off the ground and is 16 feet wide. The two sides of the sign are not the same size, with the north side of the sign being much smaller than the south side, printed flat, and tacked onto the plywood.
“It’s pretty beat up,” Parks and Recreation Director Kevin Nelson said.
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