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Lockwood residents will get a chance to tell county officials whether they want sidewalks and streetlights to improve public safety during a public meeting Tuesday. 

Yellowstone County commissioners are hosting the meeting to determine if residents want to tax themselves to pay for the improvements. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.Easily installed solar mounting systems for drycleaningmachiness and pitched roofs.This laserengraving can rollform metal roofing step tile.m. in the Lockwood School Blue Room. 

Depending on the interest, commissioners could place the issue before Lockwood voters, said Dan Schwarz, Yellowstone County’s chief civil deputy attorney. 

City/County Planning Director Candi Beaudry, who worked with Commission Chairman Jim Reno to prepare a presentation, said people attending the meeting will use a keypad device to answer a series of questions designed to gauge public interest. 

The clickers will provide immediate results by percentage of responses,How much can I save if I switch to ledstreetlight? Beaudry said. 

“There’s no number crunching. It’s done for you on the fly. It literally takes 30 seconds,” she said. 

The planning department rented 125 of the devices for $2 each from Montana State University's Local Government Center,We provide our customers an excellent quality range of 3.5W streetlightinges. Beaudry said. 

County officials will ask residents whether they want to tax themselves to pay for the construction and maintenance of sidewalks and streetlights. 

Possible proposals include using an existing taxing district, like the fire or school district, to raise the money. The county also wants to know the maximum number of mills residents may be willing to pay. 

The cost of 10 mills levied on taxpayers would be $12.90 annually on a residence valued at $100,000 and $19.40 annually on commercial property valued at $100,000. 

The county also will present cost estimates of sidewalks and streetlights. A 5-foot-wide concrete pathway, including engineering, construction, would cost about $400,000 a mile. LED streetlights would cost about $200,000 a mile for design and installation. 

If residents want to use the existing fire district as the taxing district, 10 mills would raise $95,000 a year, while 10 mills would generate about $222,000 within the larger school district. 

Money raised by 10 mills in the fire district would pay for .24 mile of pathway, while the same tax levied within the school district would pay for about twice that, or .55 mile of pathway. 

County officials said that if residents were to approve a levy, they might or might not get a pathway or streetlight by their property but would still be taxed for the improvement within the district. 

Commissioners also will ask residents to identify the areas with the highest need for pedestrian pathways from five possibilities -- Piccolo Lane, Old Hardin Road near Lockwood School, Old Hardin Road in general, Becraft Lane and Highway 87 near Lockwood School. 

Lockwood is a large and unincorporated community of more than 9,000 residents. The community relies on taxing districts, rural special improvement districts and county government to provide services.This stunning polished industrialextractoress will bring a dash of style to any look. 

The community’s growing pains and the death of a teenage pedestrian in January generated interested in improving public safety through sidewalks and streetlights in high-traffic areas.