{"id":5287,"date":"2023-08-16T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2023-08-16T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T00:00:29","slug":"kekionga-project-gaining-full-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/16\/kekionga-project-gaining-full-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kekionga Project gaining full steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A successful capital campaign and the release of ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funds have Decatur’s Kekionga Project now moving full steam ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Coordinator Jamie Gephart told city council Tuesday night that $53,359 was raised by the recent two-month capital campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having collected the funds with the time period prescribed by the Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority, it is providing a $50,000 match \u2013 which Gephart said she has been told was heading the city’s way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything is coming into place,\u201d Gephart said. \u201cHopefully, the dog park will be getting open this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stocking of the pond by the dog park is scheduled for October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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City Operations Manager Jeremy Gilbert was given the go-ahead by the city’s board of works and safety to accept a $98,750 quote from Custom Net Backstops Inc. to install all netting and a new backstop with netting at the dilapidated Kekionga Park ball diamond used by a men’s league and a co-ed softball league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Custom Net put up all the netting at the REV Sports Complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nets will essentially surround the field and will have a unique feature: they can be raised 10 feet in the event of flooding. That was a requirement of the Department of Natural Resource (DNR) since the area is in a flood plain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Custom Nets spokesman told Gilbert the work could begin yet in August. Gilbert said the work would take \u201cbasically a month.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bleeke Electric, which handled the non-field lighting at the REV, will light the Kekionga diamond for $56,000 and install a new electrical panel \u2013 required by Indiana & Michigan \u2013 for $7,690.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LED lights will be installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board of works gave the okay to those expenses, some of which will be coming from Kekionga Project funds and some from the ARPA money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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