It’s big, really big. It’s bright. It has YACHATS spelled out in raised capital letters.
And it could be yours for $1,675, or $900 – or, maybe just make an offer.
The city of Yachats just finished an $8,625 project to replace worn welcome signs at its north and south entrances along U.S. Highway 101. But when Newport Signs went to install the north sign late last month, it discovered one it made was about a foot too large to fit in the existing frame.
It quickly made a smaller sign, but was left with the third one, which measures about 6 feet across.
So sign company owner Ken Spencer offered it to Yachats for $900 — a discount from the $1,675 it cost to make — thinking the city could use it for the new city hall when it eventually moves to the 501 Building, the library, Commons or some other place in town.
“Who else would want it?” Max Glenn half-jokingly asked City Manager Shannon Beaucaire when she brought up the offer at last week’s City Council meeting. “But I wouldn’t quickly say ‘No.’”
But councilors Leslie Vaaler and James Kerti did. No deal, they said.
Councilors asked about making a counter-offer for less than $900. Mayor John Moore told Beaucaire to tell the sign company that Yachats would “be happy to save them the dump fee.”
Spencer, when contacted Monday, said he hopes the city – or someone – could use it.
“I would certainly hate to just chuck it,” he said. “It would be a shame to waste it. But if the city doesn’t want it but also doesn’t want to release it, then I’d just have to dispose of it.”
