The Danville City Council has approved seeking a 600 thousand dollar grant for improvements at Garfield Park. The grant would be through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
The city hopes to use this money to make park improvements that were originally to be funded by COVID relief money. Funds were allocated for renovations of the Garfield Park pool and the playground. But bids came in much higher than expected says City Engineer Sam Cole
He says the grant could go toward planned park improvements
The park projects will cost about 1.2 million dollars. Cole says Danville will spend 600 thousand dollars on the park work no matter what happens with the grant. Itfeed be, that money could be used as a grant match.
In other action, the council approved the purchase of a wide area mower and a dump truck with a plow and spreader. It also okayed a plan to work with AMBUCS for renovation of playground equipment in Winter and Lincoln Parks.
