The Lathrop City Council already gave its blessing to use tax dollars to install a traffic light at Harlan Road and Stonebridge Lane and renovate a pair of popular Lathrop Parks. Now it’s up the independent committee that controls the purse strings to decide whether the $470,000 expenditure is in line with what voters wanted when they approved a one-cent sales tax increase for public safety and community benefit projects in November of 2012. Next week, Lathrop’s Measure C Oversight Committee will decide on whether the $300,000 purchase and installation of a traffic signal at Harlan Road and Stonebridge Way – which would help control the flow and speed of traffic that accesses George Widmer Elementary School as well as the Stonebridge neighborhood that surrounds it – will fulfill the public safety ideal that was set forth in the language that was overwhelmingly approved by voters to help generate an estimated $2 million-a-year in additional sales tax revenue for the City of Lathrop.