DeKalb city council voted Monday night to continue financing streetscape designs in the Downtown Revitalization Plan.

DeKalb will issue a four million dollar bond anticipation note to fund design and engineering costs for a new police station and streetscaping in downtown.

DeKalb will pay one million dollars to Hitchcock Design Inc., subcontractors Baxter and Woodman and Wendler Engineering, to continue work on the Downtown Revitalization Plan.

Hitchcock, the firm that created the original concept presented at the Aug. 13 committee of the whole meeting, was awarded the contract at Monday’s council meeting as well.

DeKalb alderman Kris Povlsen, 2nd Ward, voiced concerns over the price tag.

“What’s bothersome to me is that, and I’ve shared this in the 10 years I’ve been up here, is that we have to spend close to a million dollars to get photos and surveys and pictures and drawings before we actually get the opportunity to put up a tree or a bench,” Povlsen said. “A million dollars could go a long way.”

DeKalb City Manager Mark Biernacki called the cost — 10 percent of the total estimated project cost — customary.

Biernacki said the police station design, which will use another portion of the four million dollar BAN has not yet been awarded to any contractor. The station design will cost roughly the same as the streetscaping plan.

Also at Monday night’s meeting, Fire Chief Lanny Russell reported that Federal Emergency Management Agency officials were still in the area examining damage from the Aug. 23 flood.

He said federal money, if granted, could be used for both private repairs and helping to offset the $300,000 spent by the city during and after the flood.