Garden City DDA Background The Garden City Downtown Development Authority’s mission is to enhance the quality of life for Garden City residents by strengthening the downtown district, to bene?t the greater Garden City community. Kim Dold, the Executive Director of Garden City DDA, and her team has wanted to upgrade Garden City’s downtown lighting for some time, as their existing streetlight’s lens covers have been discontinued and they had increasing maintenance issues. Dold explained, “It got to the point where a dozen lights would be out, and no sooner than repairing those, the following week we’d have three more out. ” The DDA looked into traditional bank loans and issuing a bond to upgrade their streetlights but neither properly addressed their needs. “We would have eventually done the

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