by Geoff Fox
As temperatures start getting warmer, folks are going to want to cool off and kids have some fun at the splash pad in Widmeyer Park.
When it opens, there will be a few additions and changes in store at the splash pad.
REM contractors are currently putting up a fence around the splash pad to help control who and what gets onto the splash pad.
Once completed, the fencing will keep people off the splash pad when it isn’t open.
photo by Geoff Fox
Town officials also have noted they will not be renting out the splash pad this summer as there is no way to do so.
Town Manager Mike Faith said there have already been questions regarding rentals.
Faith said one of the reasons the town went with the splash pad instead of a pool was because it doesn’t require having a lifeguard stationed there, so it saves taxpayers money.
“There are plans somewhere down the road possibly to put a pavilion up there on that concrete pad that’s there,” Faith said.
Once the pavilion is put up, Faith said it could be rented out, but the splash pad itself still would not be able to be rented.
Faith said if they got into that, they’d have to have paid employees at the splash pad and start charging an entry fee, which would defeat the purpose of the splash pad.
The fence should be completed, weather depending, when the splash pad opens, which has a tentative date of the weekend of May 23.
