Downtown bike trail to feature two new parks
Two new city parks are planned for summer construction that will coincide with completion of a downtown bike trail along Main Street. The parks were officially named “Cornerstone” and “Trailside” at a Feb. 10 City Council meeting. The names were recommended by the city’s parks and recreation committee.
Centerville collects a park dedication fee from every new development within the city. Although the funding has run dry, City Administrator Dallas Larson said the parks are moving forward thanks to federal funding dollars totaling around $800,000. That money will help pay for both the bike trail and the parks, which Larson described as trail “rest stops.” The city is committing around $400,000 for the project, money that had to be borrowed against future development dedication fees, Larson said.
“Those fees will be reimbursed when development moves forward again,” he noted.
Cornerstone Park will sit just west of St. Genevieve Church in downtown Centerville. It will be anchored by a water feature containing a monument that will likely read “May peace prevail on earth” in various languages, according to city engineers. Plans aren’t cemented, but the words could appear in English, French, German and Lakota.
Nicholas Backus
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Brings us back to the days of Council selecting five different concrete colors and choosing to plant streetlights on top of each other.
What the reporter failed to mention is how much money we are paying the "engineers" to come up with all these ideas. That is costing us plenty, too!
How many flippin parks does a teeny tiny city need?
While our Council gambles on future development, other city leaders are being responsible and saying no thanks to grant monies which always have some sort of matching funds requirement.
Glad to see the paper actually report that.
This council and mayor seem to have misplaced priorities. Spending money on things such as the bike paths and "rest stop" parks seems oddly out of touch with reality.
This excessive spending is in step with the colored concrete fiasco.
NOTHING is going to bring business to town except lower taxes.
The Mayor is being played a fool and spending our money to support the Bonestroo company which just so happens to have an employee sitting in on every council meeting.
AKA City Engineer, Mark Statz
Oh yes, Mark (Statz) that is a great idea... How much money do we owe your company (Bonestroo) for coming up with it?
"May Peace Prevail on Earth" in several different languages? Where do we sign up?
Understandably, we will pay your corporation for researching each individual translation.
SERIOUSLY! Get a clue!
Meanwhile, there is NO MONEY set aside for road maintenance as the citizens continue being assessed in the tens of thousands of dollars on top of their steep property taxes.
$400,000 would pay for many of the recent resident street assessments.
Remember why you moved here?
I do. In 1997 the property taxes were among the lowest in the price range I qualified for. Bike paths and its rest stops had nothing to do with my decision. What happened since then?
The administration starting in 2004.
They are all still here and will not go away until you kick them out of office this November.
Thank You. I will get off my soapbox now.
We have $400,000 to spend on parks we DON'T need NOW? I think there are better places to put that money. Like spending down the debt.
Look it up on the City's website - parks & rec.
There are currently 10 green highlighted parks in Centerville.
And now 2 new parks? Is this not overkill? Especially since we have a HUGE & beautiful regional park on the other side of Centerville Lake which is only a few miles away from every resident in town!
more parks??? WTF ???? How are we going to pay to maintain all these parks after we go in the hole making them???
It seems that it never ends with this council. More parks? Really? Look how much we invested in Hidden Springs (which still is not impressive), and the only real things that take place there are the council giving themselves "kudos". We are not the Centerville they like to imagine we are. We just want to be left alone. The monies on all of the pretty concrete? We residents see it with disgust.
Leaders, term used lightly. We have no city enthusiasm, no teamwork, just separation. We have no parade, no city celebration, nothing but empty parks for residents to gather which none are really fitting anyway.
I wish someone could open the council's eyes and ears, THEY need to learn to read and understand English. This is America, for those who do not speak or read English, learn it and then read messages such as "May Peace Prevail in Centerville"
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