HAGERMAN - Here's your sign.

The Hagerman City Council will hope to hear those words if it approves submission of a grant application for the Local Rural Highway Investment program.

Ivan McCracken, with J-U-B Engineers, Inc., presented the council a draft copy of the grant application Wednesday, which would provide signage upgrades on public roads without requiring matching funds from Hagerman.

McCracken said the grant would be allocated in 2011. All Idaho cities under 5,000 population can apply by Dec. 1. The application will be reviewed by the City Council and signed by acting Mayor Michael Winther before it's submitted.

In other business, the council approved the canvass of votes from their municipal general election. With 122 ballots cast, incumbents Winther and Carl Jeffries retained their seats. Twenty-eight percent of Hagerman's 449 registered voters went to the polls Tuesday.

Discussion of the ap-pointment of a new mayor and council president was tabled by Councilman Douglas Wickham.

City Superintendent Casey Kelley said the city has been "working on checking over the 2010 Census feedback address list and map." As Census takers, they "picked up an extra 100 homes."

Kelley asked the council who was responsible for irrigation line maintenance. Tree roots are puncturing the line. Although the line is in the city's right-of-way, trees impacting it are on private property.

Wickham said the city could spend $500 to clean out the pipe. Since Hagerman doesn't have a storm drainage system, the only other option is to open a ditch. The discussion was tabled until the council's next work session.