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Lose Park in Williamsport on Thursday morning.
City Council authorized a contract for about $31,655 with Larson Design Group for a design for Lose Park, a planned project with $395,000 of investment for improvements to the park along Memorial Avenue.
The project and improvements will be paid for through the city obtaining a $145,000 grant from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and use of prior year Community Development Block Grant of $250,000, said Skip Memmi, city director of economic and community development.
Improvements are expected at the basketball court. Trees will be planted and seating will be put around a pavilion. Access to the park from Memorial Avenue will be improved. Drawings of the improvements are expected to be provided soon to the public works committee, said Councilwoman Bonnie Katz.
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It will be another year at the helm of City Council for two veteran council members.
Council reelected Randall J. Allison, president, and Liz Miele vice president, at its recent reorganizational meeting.
The roll call vote was 7-0 on the nominations and elections of Allison and Miele.
“We know it is a team effort,” Allison said after the vote. “We have really seen it this past year,” he said. “It has taken every single member of council to be totally engaged and involved,” he said.
Miele noted how Allison did yeoman’s work guiding the council through a