Lock Haven ready to proceed with 2023 capital improvement projects
LOCK HAVEN, PA – City council moved its meeting to the Ross Library on Monday evening and the session was over in short time. Among the topics was an update from City Manager Greg Wilson on the city’s 2023 Capital Improvement Program.
Wilson provided council general fund, highway fund, water and sewer fund capital projects over the course of the current calendar year and also 2024. These amount to some four to five million dollars and much of the money, the manager said, will be provided by grants, along with user fees.
Among the initial projects for this year will be a rebuild of the Taggart Park complex along Park Street. The junior league field was placed there in the mid-1950s, and a softball field followed some years later. Most of the upgrades in the interim have been of a piecemeal nature. CDBG funds and other grants are to cover some $410,000 in improvements. A grant for $735,000 is to go for improvements at Hoberman Park, the major project there a rebuild of the skate park.
A $28,000 grant is to cover installation of the city’s first EV charging stations and $305,399 in CDBG money is to provide for paving parts of Bald Eagle and Race Streets.
City pubic works director Tony Stopper announced the city’s annual spring cleanup on April 10, 11, 17 and 18. Leaves and garden residue must be kept separate, placed in bags or containers not weighing more than 50 pounds, and placed along the street curb or sidewalk by 7 a.m. each day. Brush or limbs must be tied in bundles.
Stopped also noted there is a dumpster at the city’s Public Works Facility on Second Avenue for residents to bring items on their own.
The city water department will begin its annual water system flushing beginning in the McElhattan area from April 3 to April 14; Castanea from April 17 to April 28; Lock Haven, May 1 to May 26.
