The Taylorville City Council members met for a specialized meeting with several Business owners who have storefronts or restaurants on the Taylorville Square. The meeting was to discuss a new DECO construction project, set to be decided on in October. 

At the meeting, Taylorville Mayor Bruce Barry and the Taylorville Aldermen opened up the meeting to the business owners so that they could observe and discuss the new design proposal, drawn up by Benton Engineering. An engineer from Benton Engineering, Bill Seeman, presented this new design as the first render of what they think would work for giving the Taylorville Square a long-awaited facelift. 

According to Seeman, this design is just a first proposal. Seeman also said that the design is subject to changes and that he wanted input from the affected businesses. The concerns of the business owners were how long construction would take to finish, what their plans were for sidewalks outside, and how parking would work once this new design came to fruition. Seeman mentioned making the design more accessible for patrons and that there are still some undecided factors.

The big plan was to improve the Taylorville Square for the next generation of people. Seeman also mentioned that the plans are not finalized yet and that the input of the business owners from the square would ultimately help Benton mold the finalized design plan.

A last topic of discussion, was on the installation of public restrooms to be used for the shoppers on the square, The idea was accepted, and called a "great idea" by some of the local business owners, as the new public restrooms would keep shoppers on the square from leaving the area to utilize a restroom, hence keeping the business open and the foot traffic around for longer durations. The restrooms, if decided to be built, will be placed into a building located within easy walking distance from the square off of Main Cross and would be open during regular square business hours.

The matter of discussion and approval on the new public restrooms will be discussed and officially decided on at a later date.

At the end of the meeting, Mayor Barry thanked everyone for coming and providing their input on both the public restroom proposal and the new DECO project for the town square.

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