By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
The City of Great Bend has a list of quality of life projects they want to pursue in the 2024 fiscal year. The Great Bend City Council already approved a $677,222 splash pad to be installed at Veterans Memorial Park by next May and Eldridge Fencing should finish the fencing around the revamped skate park within a week.
Assistant City Administrator Logan Burns said design services
for improvements at Brit Spaugh Park will be presented to the council at next
Monday’s meeting.
"Right now, the design services are coming in just over $84,000," said Burns. "Those bids were all over the board. I think our high bid was $190,000, so I think we're getting a pretty good price for where we're at currently. The low bid was BG Consultants...I'm pretty excited about them."
BG Consultants is handling the more than $830,000 water service improvement to
the Kansas Army National Guard Armory at the airport.
The nearly $2 million project at Brit Spaugh Park will include an outdoor
basketball court, pickleball courts, mini soccer pitches, playground and a
restroom facility on the south side of the park.
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The city will also try to finish the lighting improvement around the walking
path at Vets Park for $75,000 and an additional area for small dogs at the dog
park.
The .15% quality of life sales tax is expected to generate $635,000 in the 2024
budget.