Terry Bright didn’t just come with his hand out when he asked for a stop sign for his neighborhood, he offered to throw in a few hundred dollars to make it happen.

“I would kick in a couple of hundred dollars for it,” Bright told members of the Smithville board of mayor and aldermen while asking a stop sign be installed on the street near his home on Winter Wonder Street near the park. “The city doesn’t run itself.”

The sign, which is going on Spring Street where the speed limit is 20 miles per hour, was something city leaders had already considered given the fact very few people do the posted speed limit there. The propensity for speeding in the area makes the intersection a dangerous proposition, especially given the increased travel there caused by a new subdivision.

Bright said he took it upon himself to approach the city board after discussing the dangerous intersection with neighbors. They all agreed something must be done to avoid a serious wreck.

Mayor Jimmy Poss pointed out that the police department has already done an assessment on the intersection and agreed it would benefit from a stop sign. The board agreed and voted to move ahead with placing the four-way stop. Bright was thanked for his offer to kick in money to help but it was noted public money would be used to put up the stop sign since it will be for public benefit.