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Madras Asks For State Grant To Improve Park

MADRAS, OR -- Madras City Councilors approved a resolution Tuesday, to move ahead with a grant request from the state to help fund a new playground at Crescent Park (pictured above), in the Yarrow Subdivision.

 

Public Works Director Jeff Hurd says the city asked for the matching funds grant last year, but it was denied. This time, he says, they're asking for $26,000; a little less than last time. "We didn't get it last year, so it's just redoing what we were already planning to do. Somebody gave me more money, and now it's a new year and I've got to redo a new resolution, and change all the dates and do it again." He says he's happy to go through the process again because, with donations from the community in the last year, the $44,200 project should be fully funded and ready for construction once the grant is approved. 

 

Hurd says the community is extremely generous when it comes to funding parks, which means the city can keep grant requests low. He tells KBND News that Madras residents and organizations went above and beyond last year, to fund the splash pad planned for Sahalee Park. "What's really neat about this one, and what I like so much about it, is it's one of those stories about great community support. We had a ton of businesses in town who were helping to fund this thing, and then we had little fundraiser events that we had going on all last year. I mean, it just kind of blew my mind, of what a cool little town this is." Matching funds for the splash pad were approved by the state but await federal approval. Hurd hopes construction on that project will begin in Spring of 2019, and be ready just in time for summer.

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