by Geoff Fox
Councilman David Kerns has heard back from two companies in regard to the proposed splash pad for Widmeyer Park.
Kerns said Splash Pad USA and Rain Pad got back to him about how to do sizing for the future splash pad.
Kerns told the two companies most of the time the kids would be from Good Shepherd Preschool, which has 30 to 50 kids.
“They told me to base it off of 30 square feet per kid, so that’s their rule of thumb on how big the splash pad needs to be,” Kerns said.
He used the example of 100 kids using the splash pad, the size would need to be a 3,000 square foot splash pad.
Officials can’t make the splash pad too big that it won’t be used, but at the same time, not make it too small where it can’t be used.
The town had been looking at a splash pad in the size of 7,000 to 8,000 square feet.
“I’ m just giving some ideas on what they were basing it off of,” Kerns said. He added the town could settle on 5,000 square feet.
The plan was to put the splash pad in the same general area as the previous pool footprint, but that might change.
With getting more use out of the pickleball and basketball courts, Kerns said the idea could be to move the splash pad closer to the courts, behind the trees where parents could see the kids. This would be the corner of the old concession stand on the old bathhouse.
“It would be nice to go ahead, we’ ll make some plans on where we want to put this thing and then get a final definition on what we’re doing and then get the RFP out and get this thing moving,” Kerns said.
Both companies said they would possibly have to sub out concrete, which Kerns said could be done by someone local.
Weavers declared surplus property, bids opened Town officials have officially declared 77 West Main Street, the former Weaver’s Restaurant, surplus property via a new ordinance.
Officials have already put the property up for sale and the deadline for bids was last Monday, November 13.
