Montgomery Board OKs designs for new streetlight pole banners

Montgomery residents and anyone else who passes through the village later this year should see new decorative, seasonal banners hanging on streetlight poles throughout the community.

Village board members voiced support Monday evening, Jan. 25, for four designs for new banners as recommended by the board’s Beautification Committee and Mark Wolf, village director of public works.

Both Wolf and Dan Gier, chairman of the Beautification Committee, said that the village’s current banners have been in service for a number of years and are beginning to show wear.

Wolf said the committee is seeking to “get a facelift” for the village’s banner program with the purchase of new replacement banners featuring new seasonal designs.

Until now, Wolf said the village’s banner program has been limited to the village’s downtown area near Village Hall and the Douglas Road retail corridor on the village’s east side.

With the purchase of the new banners, Wolf said, banners would be placed along busy roads on the village’s far west side, including Concord Drive, Gordon Road and Simpson Parkway, and on Goodwin Drive on the village’s far east side.

The number of banners placed in the downtown area and along Douglas Road would be reduced, Wolf said.

In a memo to the board, Wolf noted the village traditionally has utilized banners for all four seasons of the year, while the new banner designs will consist of four different designs, to be changed out only two times a year.

Board member Steve Jungermann said he liked the new banner designs.

“I like expanding [the banner program] out west and including everybody,” said board member Doug Marecek.