A long awaited upgrade of the town website is about to get underway, with the hiring of a consulting firm to do the work. Meanwhile, Davidson is in the midst of a project, mostly funded by developers of property off I-77 Exit 30, to install 150 new ornamental street lamps along Griffith Street. Also, planner Parviz Moosavi is town Employee of the Quarter.

Photo: New streetlamps going in along Griffith Street and near Exit 30 have twin mercury vapor lamps.

NEW WEBSITE TO COME

Town officials have chosen Civic Plus, a consulting firm from Manhattan, Kans., to help with a redesign of the town website.

Town communications director Sara-Lynne Levine says the $18,600 project will create a “virtual town hall,” where citizens will be able to pay parking tickets and carry out other transactions and search an archive of public information about town operations. The site will have town news, instant opinion polls on town issues, and more photographs, Ms. Levine said.

Civic Plus specializes in websites for local governments.

GRIFFITH LIGHTS

Town Planning Director Kris Krider said developers have paid more than $400,000 for about 130 of the street lamps, which he describes as “an elegant and high quality cast iron assembly” with mercury vapor lamps. The town is paying for 20 lamps.

The lights produce “quite a bit of downward light for pedestrians and visibility motorists,” he said in an email message announcing the project.

The two roundabouts will get four lamps each. Others will be along Griffith Street and in front of existing businesses including the Exxon Station and Spinnaker Reach on Jetton Street.

MOOSAVI HONORED

Davidson planner Parviz Moosavi was honored at the Oct. 9 Town Board meeting as the town Employee of the Quarter.

Mr. Moosavi was praised for a positive attitude. The award was voted by all town employees.

In recognizing Mr. Moosavi, Mayor Randy Kincaid said, “He is described as having a great atitude. He greets people with a smile, and is very polite. And he tries his best to give them an answer or provide any information they need.”