The Centralia City Council Monday night will be asked to pass a resolution to demolish the pools at Fairview Park. City Manager Kory Smith says the demolition will only include the pools and ground surface surrounding the pools and not the building and adjacent buildings and structures that have been used by the pool. The buildings will remain until further study, planning, and determinations by the city.
A pool committee appointed by the City Council is currently studying if a new outdoor pool should be built in its place. The committee is set to meet Tuesday night at five at Centralia City Hall to hear information compiled so far from Burbach Aquatics, Inc. which has been hired to assist in the study.
The council will consider a $10,998 price from AAA State of Play to purchase two merry-go-rounds and one teeter-totter for Fairview Park and Laura Leake Park. AAA was the lowest of the two companies asked to provide bids.
Centralia Mayor Bryan Kuder will declare April 11th as Master Sergeant Merritt Leroy Wynn Day in Centralia. Wynn disappeared during the Korean War in 1950 and was just recently identified through remains turned over by North Korea to have been killed. His body is being returned to Centralia and will be laid to rest in Elmwood Cemetery on Saturday. The council is also being asked to pass an ordinance waiving the fees for cemetery services.
The council will be asked to pass a resolution to approve a highway authority agreement with Ameren Illinois for Corrective Action within city right of way at 500 South Hickory. The agreement is required by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency as part of Ameren’s cleanup of the former site of a coal gasification plant that was completed in 2010.
The council will consider a resolution to authorize the use of a city-owned parking lot on South Locust Street for the annual Farmer’s Market and authorize Terry Herrell as Market Master.
The Centralia City Council meeting begins at six Monday night at Centralia City Hall.
