Benches

 CMS receive an $8500 grant to install some more benches in the downtown area. Putting them streetside along Washington next to the concert area would not be a bad idea, providing seating ones events start taking place there again. Hoping the reference to having architecture and design students design the benches meant SIUC students. I have noticed the city, and even the University itself, prefers to pay outside consultants to develop logos and designs rather than turning to the various departments, in some cases among the best in the country, at SIUC