LAWTON – A new municipal law will enable the City of Lawton to penalize obnoxious door-to-door sales people.
City staff “has received complaints about door-to-door vendors knocking on doors where ‘no soliciting’ signs are clearly posted,” Community Services Director Charlotte Brown said.
An ordinance the City Council approved unanimously makes it unlawful for any door-to-door vendor or peddlers to “engage in solicitation at any residence or place of business” that has a “no soliciting” or similar sign “visibly posted on their premises.”
Any vendor or peddler who accumulates more than 10 complaints of violating the ordinance within 30 calendar days could have his/her vendor/peddler permit temporarily suspended or permanently revoked.
Other issues discussed during the City Council meeting Nov. 5 included traffic on Gore Boulevard, replacement of a couple of bridges, completion of two waterline projects, and a malfunctioning sewage lift station.
• The City of Lawton saved more than a third of a million do llars on two waterline projects.
The jobs were the Meadowbrook water line replacement between 38th and 53rd streets, and the 67th Street water line project from Bishop Road to south of Combs Road.
Change orders reduced the contract awarded to Southwest Water Works of Oklahoma City: by $362,506, to $5,627,374.
• Plans and specifications were approved, and city staff was authorized to advertise for competitive bids, on rehabilitation of the eastbound and westbound bridges spanning Wolf Creek in the 4000 block of Northwest Cache Road.
The work will entail repairs to expansion joints, replacement of bearing assemblies, repainting, and riprap, according to Michael Jones, Lawton’s interim director of engineering. The contractor will be expected to finish the job within 180 calendar days.
• The City Council approved plans and specifications, and authorized city staff to advertise for construction bids, to replace the “dilapidated, high-maintenance” sewage lift station near the intersection of Southwest Sixth Street and Belmont Avenue.
The project will cost an estimated $1.5 million and will be financed from a $30 million Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan, Public Utilities Director Rusty Whisenhunt said.