By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
In July, the Great Bend City Council approved nearly $300,000 worth of improvements to Heizer Park. Receiving a $161,260 grant from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, the City of Great Bend changed the original plan for the improvements, removing the playground equipment from the project.
City Administrator Logan Burns said Wildlife and Parks should be approving the change soon.
"Right now, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks are telling me that it will be an October approval for the amendment we did make to that," said Burns. "Right now we're just waiting on approval from the travel organizations because of that amendment."
Once work begins, the improvements include a Musco mini-pitch double soccer court system, restroom facility, irrigation for the entire park, new basketball goals, new sand volleyball net, fencing and netting behind a new soccer field.
Great Bend has approved contracts with Ramirez Construction, Superior Sprinklers and CXT Restrooms to assist with the project.