Work on the second phase of $ 1 million upgrade project in a park in Miners Mills will start shortly until an order from the Wilkes-Barre city council is awarded this week.
Mayor George C. Brown will ask the Council to approve him to award the contract for $ 431,532 for BOG Phase II All-Inclusive Playground/Park project to the Department of Enterprises at the working meeting on Tuesday. The Council is expected to vote on the resolution at the meeting on Thursday.
The Council previously awarded Panzitta Enterprises a contract for $ 220,596 for phase 1 of the project, which includes the preparation of the surfaces and the installation of devices. The work on the Evercor Field Field in the Bog in the 65 Dewey Lane.
A new rubber surface for existing and new playgrounds, also part of the first project phase, costs an additional 214,850 US dollars, and some of the new devices cost another 190,520 US dollar. Lucerne-Wyoming Counties Mental Health and Development Services also donated three additional parts of all-inclusive playground devices.
The work in the second phase of the project includes excavations. Resumption of the parking lot and the dishes; Conversion of the tennis area into six pickleball places; Expansion of the park on the park's tennis side and added adding about 50 other parking spaces; Grinding, paving and leaving existing parking spaces; Add decorative fences along the front entrance; And install the chain-link fence throughout the park to improve security.
Wilkes-Barre Department of Public Works Crews removed some old equipment and excavated the original playground areas. You will also carry out maintenance work for existing devices, including force washing and painting. And as soon as the tennis courts are converted, they will line them for pickleball game.
The project is financed by donations and state and federal grants to the city's economic and community development.
Student Success Center
Another major agenda point before the council this week is the authorization of the city officials to make a project management proposal to the state for a subsidy for renovation programs of 750,000 US dollars in order to finance the student of the student of the student of the student College.
King's transforms his library into a new state-of-the-art student Success Center to increase enrollment, retention and final rates, which benefits both the mission of the institution and the economic health of the Wilke-Barre area, said King's spokesman in an email.
“The project combines essential student services to an improved mentoring hub that offers personalized support from academic advice and tutoring as well as special programs for the first generation, international and financially endangered students. The demand for these services continues to grow in the post-pandemical university landscape,” said Skaggs.
The renovation work mainly focuses on the first floor of the D. Leonard Corgan Library in the 14 W. Jackson St., Wilkes-Barre. The project includes general construction and structural and interior amplifiers, including HLK, electrical, sanitary, carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, ceiling and facades.
The construction of this project at around 3.7 million US dollars started in June 2024 and is almost complete.
Other shops
The Council also includes resolutions:
- Temporarily use the regulation on the open group so that the consumption of wine in a vineyard area for fine arts Fiesta is held in public square from May 15th to 18th. The suspension lasted every day from 3 p.m. to the closing time of the festival.
- Temporarily expose the open-container regulation to enable the consumption of alcoholic beverages in a designated area of the river for the annual rockin 'The River Free Concert Series on 11, 18 and 25 July from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. every evening.
- Return Patricia Unvarsky to the traffic committee.
- Explain the Earth Day on April 22nd as a day to promote and celebrate earth -friendly food and to support a healthier food system.
The Council meets on Tuesday at 6 p.m. and on Thursday at 6 p.m. on the fourth floor of the town hall, 40 E. Market St., Wilkes-Barre at 6 p.m.
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