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Marietta City Council authorized the pursuit of a couple of grants Thursday during its regular business meeting.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
By unanimous approval, council authorized the pursuit of an Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Recreation Trails Program grant Thursday for a total project cost of $146,000.
Following the meeting, Marietta Law Director Paul Bertram corrected what exhibits were provided to the Times.
Bertram explained that $44,000 is outlined in the proposal for design and engineering costs.
Another $72,000 is outlined for construction.
Then the city’s match, Bertram explained, would be “hard cash” for construction ($19,000) and for the design phase ($11,000).
jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Photo by Janelle Patterson
With warm weather shining down on East Muskingum Park, walkers, cyclists and four-legged friends populated the River Trail Wednesday before the park was a topic of discussion in Marietta City Council.
From grant opportunities to zoning process, and active city litigation to financial change orders the agendas and subsequent discussions before members of Marietta City Council were full Thursday.
Grant opportunity
In Police and Fire Committee, Chairman Bill Gossett supported both proposals coming out of the Marietta Fire Department.
Marietta Fire Chief C.W. Durham demonstrated early council involvement in planning and achieving buy-in as he looks to the hope of expansion of his staff up to nationally-recommended standards.
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Planning was at the center of three discussions amidst three hours of Marietta City Council committees Thursday. Pedestrian Safety Planning
Streets Committee Chairwoman Susan Boyer focused her questions on grant administration of the Ohio Department of Health’s Creating Healthy Communities’ programmatic funding Thursday following the citizen-driven outline of pedestrian safety needs along the Franklin Street Corridor in the lower west side (Harmar).
“We were recently contacted as a neighborhood, from the county health department’s Creating Healthy Communities Coalition as part of their 2021 work plan for improving pedestrian infrastructure,” prefaced Councilman Geoff Schenkel, D, Fourth Ward (the ward in which Harmar and the lower west side sit).
In a series of meetings Thursday, committees of Marietta City Council covered financial asks, updates on water projects and personnel organization updates in ad