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Construction on New Playground Set to Begin Sometime in May

April 30, 2021 By Dick Cook Leave a Comment

With demolition of Pioneer Frontier playground completed, construction of a new version of the popular mid-town recreation area will get underway, officials said earlier this week.

City Manager Chris Dorsey told East Ridge News Online in an email that the playground equipment installation will begin “around the middle/end of May.”

According to Dorsey, the new $1 million playground and splash pad will be built concurrently. First, though, the East Ridge City Council will pass a measure recommended by staff that $82,511 be allocated for the instillation of utilities associated with the facility. Staff is recommending a company called Integrated Builds will get the contract for the job.

It is anticipated that the utility installation would occur between May 17 and June 11.

Dorsey said a company called Water Odyssey will build the splash pad itself.

The playground will be installed by Game Time and Cunningham Recreation.

“It is hopeful with cooperation from the weather, that the playground will be completed some time in July and the splash pad completed by Labor Day,” Dorsey wrote in an email. “I’d love to have the playground done by July 4th, but we’ll see.”

Dorsey explained the $1 million price tag for the project will be covered by a $500,000 grant from the state’s Local Parks and Recreation Fund. The city would have to match that amount. The money would come from the city’s “fund balance.”

Dorsey said the $500,000 is a “budgeted planned use of fund balance.”

That’s about half of what the city is drawing from the fund balance this year, $976,000, to balance the fiscal year budget.

Click on the archived story below for more context regarding this article.

No Clear Answer on When Pioneer Frontier Construction May Begin

Filed Under: FEATURED POSTS, News, SLIDER

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.


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