“The (park renovation bond) is not dead,” Vice Mayor and Ward 2 Councilman Joseph Mickens told The Dispatch Tuesday afternoon. “I see it coming back up for another vote, and when it does I’m on board with it.”
Mayor Keith Gaskin broke a tie during a Friday morning special call meeting to kill an effort to sell about $3 million in revenue bonds intended for a $4.4 million parks renovation plan that would have mostly focused on improving Propst Park.
Columbus City Council voted Tuesday night to tap the brakes on its code enforcement remediation efforts while it sorts out which properties might fall under the auspices of its federally funded blight elimination program.