POTSDAM – The village Board of Trustees will hold a hearing at 6:45 p.m. tonight on a proposal to add some stop signs along Haggerty Road and Circle Drive to improve safety for children at play.

The board, in consultation with village police and the Department of Public Works, is proposing to put up stop signs on Haggerty Road at both intersections with Circle Drive, and on Circle Drive’s north end where it meets Haggerty Road.

In the public comment period of a board meeting in October, Haggerty Road resident John Gamble told trustees that he and many of his neighbors had discussed the problem and agreed that, while more children were out playing in the streets around Haggerty Road, Bradley Drive and Circle Drive than in recent years, more drivers seemed to be taking advantage of a couple of straight stretches in the roads there to make it a shortcut between Leroy Street and May Road while paying little attention to speed limits and without taking due care.

During the regular board meeting after the hearing tonight, board members will take up an agenda item to approve the plan by amending chapters of local law adding the signs.

If it is approved, the signs will be ordered erected at the appropriate places.