GREENFIELD – City officials will consider borrowing nearly $2 million to build a splash pad at Riley Pool.
Buzz Krohn, the city’s financial consultant, this week asked the Greenfield City Council to consider using about $260,000 of economic development income tax funds to pay for the design phase of the project and to seek a nearly $2 million loan to finance construction of a splash pad officials would like to open by summer of 2018.
Once the city borrows the $2 million, officials will take $260,000 of it to replace the economic development income tax funds used to pay for the design phase.
For months, community stakeholders have been making plans to build a splash pad south of Riley Pool. Last month, a conceptual plan for the project was unveiled to the Greenfield park board. Those plans, which call for a curved splash pad with spray features and dump buckets for kids of all ages, were presented to the city council this week.
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