SARANAC LAKE — The skateboard park downtown will soon have lights, if all goes according to plan.

There will be a public information meeting about the lights at 6 p.m. Monday at the village offices on the second floor of the Harrietstown Town Hall, 39 Main St.

Village Trustee Richard Shapiro, who helped establish the Saranac Lake SkatePark, said the lights recently passed an electrical inspection and that he contacted National Grid to hook them up.

“Hopefully, they’ll do that in the next month or so,” he said, adding that National Grid workers are doing it on a volunteer basis.

“We plan to have the park lit until 9:30 every night,” said Shapiro. “On Saturday evenings we’d like the lights available until 11:30 at night for our older skaters. Just Saturday is all we’re looking for.”

A number of skaters are in their 20s, and Shapiro said it was better to have them at the skate park than out getting drunk.

Shapiro said he’d spoken to the closest resident who might be affected by the night lights, Kean Riley who lives in a nearby apartment, and he said he was OK with it. Shapiro said he also talked to nearby business owners and that only one objected, who has always objected to the skateboard park.

Shapiro had a few questions about signage at the park: Like other village parks, it’s posted as being open “dawn to dusk.” Having lights would mean the park was open later than dusk.

Village Manager John Sweeney and Mayor Clyde Rabideau said discretionary enforcement would probably be better than changing the signs. Sweeney said he’d check with the village’s insurance company to make sure.

Rabideau said he’s willing to try keeping the SkatePark open until 11:30 p.m. Saturdays, and “if there’s a significant amount of complaints, we’ll shut it down.”