Ripon Common Council Gets The Ball Rolling On Pavilion For Murray Park
9 October 2019 News
(Original rendering for a proposed pavilion at Murray Park)
The Ripon Common Council is moving ahead with getting a design and cost estimates for a new pavilion at Murray Park. The Council last night approved doing that with a target number not to exceed $460,000 and tasking the Public Works Committee with getting the ball rolling on that work. The Council did not however specify that the Lloyd Mitchell gift of nearly $485,000 would be going toward the project. The Council is still working with MSA to find other funding sources it can leverage with the money from the gift and the estimated $430,000 in closing monies the city has from a Community Development Block Grant or CDBG for multiple projects. Those projects could include the pavilion, razing or redeveloping the American House, a new Senior Center and more. Other sources of funding could include a state Stewardship Grant, which could provide matches for work on parks like the pavilion project, Safe Drinking Water loans, closing money from Fond du Lac County for a CDBG grant and more. Council members felt enough of the public had expressed a desire to move forward with the pavilion project that they should consider the project.
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