The downtown revitalization committee will meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Rusty Compass coffee shop on Main Street.
At its Feb. 17 meeting, the committee heard from AP&T power manager Danny Gonce, who said the company could bury conduit in areas under construction around town to facilitate burial of electrical lines in the future.
Gonce told the group the utility looked at burying power lines along Third Avenue recently, but the cost was prohibitive. He agreed that the future consideration of buried power lines also could be brought to the public.
“It’s relatively expensive. If they think they want to do it regardless of price, we can do it,” Gonce said after the meeting. The cost of burying the lines is fixed, he said. “It’s a big job. There’s a lot to it.”
The group formed a subcommittee to research ordinances in other communities aimed at revitalizing downtowns.
The committee also discussed whether it could effectively revitalize downtown buildings if modified trailers could be used as retail outlets in the downtown area.
The group would be sending a letter of concern to the Haines Borough on the question, said Lenise Henderson Fontenot.
The revitalization committee was formed in the wake of a $40,000 plan by the borough aimed at rejuvenating the Main Street area and improving signage and traffic flow to the town’s commercial core.