TRACY – With Veterans Day around the corner, a war memorial restoration in Tracy is now complete.
That memorial honors the 67 service men and women from Tracy who made the ultimate sacrifice.
The chain link fence is gone and construction is now complete, but this restoration went through a lot of hurdles, including time.
“Delay after delay after delay,” said the President of the Tracy War Memorial Association, Bruce Cleaver.
It worried him.
“They gave the contractor, it’s gotta be done by this date, and the contractor was going, we’ll try, we’ll try,” he said.
The delays coming from securing enough funds.
“This project is two years in the making,” he said.
It went out to the bidding process, where the project was still $54,000 short to complete the job.
“We do need money, additional funding for the project,” said Cleaver at a Sept. 3 city council meeting.
Turning to the city council to get funding from another project in the city, to meet the bid and get it paid for.