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Originally Posted by gblowfish
Nice job guys. It would be cool if this could be implemented before the new season starts.
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From MODOT:
I look forward to your receiving your application. Once the application is received and reviewed, we will forward it, the 100 signatures, and supporting documents onto the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight for final review and approval. The Committee typically meets at the end of May every year, however, MoDOT has no leverage in when they meet. We are present the application and the Committee’s Secretary places the application on its agenda for review.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to focus on the health and well-being of the traveling public and our employees. To this end, we have modified some of our routine operations to ensure social distancing of our employees. Sign work is being limited to safety related signs only, meaning those signs that must remain in place to ensure a safe highway system. All other sign work, such as installation of memorial highway designation signs, is being placed on hold until such a time that this activity can be safely accomplished. Even after we move past this pandemic, we will have a backlog of sign work. The backlog is likely to be significant and will need to be prioritized in order of greatest need as it relates to the safety and operation of the highway system. We are committed to installing memorial highway designation signs. We simply ask for patience as the priorities of the department are focused on the health and safety of the public and our employees.
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So even though things are progressing nicely (money for the cost of the signs has officially been paid by the anonymous Chiefs Planet member today) and the Bank will send me the check for me to turn around and submit with the entire package (they want it all at once and not piecemeal), I am guessing that their response today means that due to COVID, Opening Day is too soon for The Joe Delaney Memorial Highway on I-435 signs to be officially unveiled but perhaps at some point this season it will happen.
As for the BBQ contest, nothing is anywhere close to official, but we are making gradual progress at an established Kansas City venue to host it in October. Nothing anywhere close to being announced yet, but hopefully sooner rather than later...