Pineville mayor Gregg Sweeten and the City Council have been discussing purchasing playground equipment. Sweeten outlined their plans.
"Myers Park located behind City Hall is filled with kids all weekend and after school almost every day," Sweeten said. "When school is out, there are kids playing on the equipment we currently have there seven days a week." The county License Bureau is in front of the park. A gate near the bureau's back door allows kids to go out and play while parents conduct business.
The park is used for family events, such as gatherings and birthday parties.
The city placed new picnic tables in the park last summer and single benches are available for folks to sit on while their children play.
"The playground equipment we have there is not commercial and is starting to show its age," Sweeten said. "So at budget time we put money in the budget for Parks and Recreation to help replace the equipment with new commercial playground equipment." The new planning board has been looking over options and have come up with the equipment they want the council to approve to purchase, he noted.
"The designs are for small children as well as kids up to their teenage years and another set of swings. The bids will be put out for an elevated play set for ages 2 to 5 which has several slides attached to it. Then a two-piece set with 10 elevated activities and four ground-level play areas for children from ages 5 to 12."
A Ten Spin merry-go-round will be bid out and a maypole -- which is a center pole with a circular set of bars that children can swing on. Included in the plan is a set of arch swings.
"Our council voted to expend up to $35,000 depending on what the bids came back in at for the purchase of this new playground equipment. We want to be able to give our kids a safe and fun place to play anytime they want."
Community on 05/19/2016