Great Bend Post
Heizer Park in Great Bend improvements is a project that will be utilizing a grant from the Land & Water Conservation Fund for $161,260. The grant requires a local city match of $200,000. The City of Great Bend put together a scope project after a conceptual estimate had given an over-budget project total of approximately $3 million.
City staff will be looking to install a Musco Mini-Pitch double court system along with providing a CXT Cortez restroom facility. This price also includes irrigating the entire park, new basketball goals, new sand volleyball net, fencing and netting behind a new soccer field.
The council will be asked to approve the bids of four contractors to start the project and individual purchases of netting, fencing and goals. There is approximately $30,000 left in the budget that the city could possibly install a pavilion.
If the council approves the bids, the city will submit the project to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks for project approval and begin procuring items.