As summer continues to heat up, so has the progress of many new developments in the town of Reed City.

According to city councilman Dan Burchett, the city is currently working on plans for improving
community recreation. This includes plans for a new dog park and splash pad to compliment the current disc golf course project. These two additional projects were found to be heavily favored during the community surveying process.

“We did a survey here about five years ago asking the community what they would like to see in this
town,” Burchett said. “The dog park was at the top of the list.”

Burchett and the city have been working on plans for the park for about three years. The original
planned location was going to be behind the Reed City Depot, but that plan had gone through. Now,
Burchett says the new spot picked out is in Westerburg Park.

“There's an area down across from The Moose (Lodge) that is open,” Burchett said. “I plan to get down there, measure it out, and get an idea of how big we are going to make it.”

The city has been working slower on this project due to the attention of the new disc golf course being built. Rambadt Park’s course has gained substantial ground over the past two months thanks to the help of two public clean-up efforts: one in early June and another this last weekend. Along with these efforts, there has also been extra help from the local Boy Scouts and a church group.

“We had the scouts also working out there and then I met up with one of the churches that had a bunch of kids help take all the (wood) chips and lay them out to make trails between the tee (boxes) and the baskets,” Burchett said. “It’s starting to take shape a little bit.”

Along with both of these developments, the city’s splash pad project is currently waiting for a response on a grant written towards funding the project. Burchett believes they will get an answer sometime in July.

 

“I want to say it’s a 1.2-million-dollar project, so it’s a substantial amount of money.”