What: Bay Beach Amusement Park funding and other parks matters.
Where it stands: The Council accepted a $1.5 million Friends of Bay Beach donation for early payoff of Bay Beach debt (August 18), a further Friends of Bay Beach donation and a Greater Green Bay Community Foundation grant (October 6), and on October 20 a GRAEF $68,500 shoreline walk engineering contract, a $50,000 Optimist Club donation and a $45,771.99 Gametime playground grant. Beaver Dam Park was renamed MacArthur Family Park (as amended). A Solar for Good project and a reverse vending pilot at Bay Beach were on the November 10 agenda.
Next: Continued grants and shoreline work.
Details
See the Log for the meeting-by-meeting record.
Sources
The city's posted agendas and minutes on the CivicClerk portal https://greenbaywi.portal.civicclerk.com/ and meeting video from the City of Green Bay YouTube channel.
Parks items: a $1.5 million donation from Friends of Bay Beach for early payoff of Bay Beach debt, renaming Beaver Dam Park (amended to MacArthur Family Park), a partial cash call on the 2018A general obligation bonds, and a rail and track purchase.