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Authorization to purchase playground equipment with CDBG funds for Chuck Camp Park from Kompan via the U.S. Communities state contract at a total cost of $149,999.43.
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ISSUE: A portion of the City's CDBG funds are being used in Chuck Camp Park for the purchase of new playground equipment. Kompan offers a unique variety of playground pieces, and Chuck Camp will be the first park in the City to have this style of playground. Delivery and installment is anticipated in June/July 2016. Renderings are attached. CDBG has advised the City that they need to expedite the expenditure of "aging" funds leftover by several years' grant allocations (2012-2015) by the end of this calendar year. Therefore, later this Spring CDBG funding will also be used for the replacement of batting cage nets and re-sodding and planing the fields in Chuck Camp as well. Another park benefitting from the grant later this calendar year is Ward Park, with the purchase of new grandstands for the baseball field and the demo/rebuild of the restroom and concessions facility.
BACKGROUND: A portion of the City's CDBG funds are being used in Chuck Camp Park for the purchase of new playground equipment. Kompan offers a unique variety of playground pieces, and Chuck Camp will be the first park in the City to have this style of playground. Delivery and installment is anticipated in June/July 2016. Renderings are attached. CDBG has advised the City that they need to expedite the expenditure of "aging" funds leftover by several years' grant allocations (2012-2015) by the end of this calendar year. Therefore, later this Spring CDBG funding will also be used for the replacement of batting cage nets and re-sodding and planing the fields in Chuck Camp as well. Another park benefitting from the grant later this calendar year is Ward Park, with the purchase of new grandstands for the baseball field and the demo/rebuild of the restroom and concessions facility.
RECOMMENDATION/REQUESTED ACTION: Approval