The Manteca Chamber of Commerce is hoping to jump start efforts to erect new welcome signs at key entrances to the city.A chamber committee led by businessman Marvin Brocchini is exploring possible designs and locations.Chamber Chief Operating Officer Debby Moorhead noted once those questions are answered and the cost determined plans are to launch a fundraising campaign to get the signs in place.The last of the three original welcome to Manteca signs the chamber erected in the 1980s was removed from its location along Moffat Boulevard last month. Like the signs that were located at one time on East Highway 120 and West Yosemite Avenue just west of Winters Drive, it had fallen into disrepair.The city had budgeted $200,000 in Manteca Redevelopment Agency funds back in 2011 to cover wayfaring signs and an electronic display/welcome sign proposed in front of the South San Joaquin Irrigation District office on East Highway 120.The City of Manteca at that time devised a conceptual design for a 20-foot high, 8½-foot wide sign with an electronic display sign. ‘The demise of redevelopment agencies ordered a year ago by the California Legislature as a partial solution to the state’s perennial budget deficits eliminated RDA funding.The city, however, has about $40 million in unspent RDA bond proceeds it is expected to receive back from the state. It can only use that money on projects identified in the issuance of bonds.