Larry Summers is your new city engineer.

I believe this sign now is obsolete.

After all, my neighbor on Spring Street has filled that long-discussed, sometimes extant position of city engineer.

Our late and lamented Lloyd wrote about it in 2008, when the position was approved and salary placed somewhere in the $50-odd thousand range. In 2009, someone whose name Steve Price couldn't pronounce was filling the job. By 2010, we saw "city engineer" on the agenda, but he or she had nothing to say. After that, the job didn't come up again until recently, when the failed automotive suicide bungler struck the Elsby Building, thereby reaffirming one-way street safety -- and the city engineer who hadn't been hired quite yet might just go down there and take a look.

Now we know: It's Larry Summers. Good luck navigating the highways and byways of Hauss Square politics, friend. You're going to need it.

Civil engineer added to Gahan’s staff; Summers will monitor projects, assist with traffic plan, by Daniel Suddeath

NEW ALBANY — New Albany has a full-time city engineer.

Larry Summers — an engineer who has represented Louisville in the public sector and firms such as Presnell Design Group in the private domain — has accepted the position.

Various New Albany City Council members have called for a full-time engineer to be hired, as the city has utilized part-time engineers in the past. A full-time engineer can help the city review construction projects and provide other expertise, council members have said.

Summers is a University of Evansville graduate, and is seeking a master’s degree in Business Administration at Indiana University.