From the Archives, 1981: City comes for Vault sculpture in night raid
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By Janne Apelgren
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Sculpture moved in night raid
In the dead of night they came, a disciplined team armed with tools, trucks and a mobile crane. Their mission: to move the City Square sculpture.
The Vault is dismantled ready to be removed from the City Square, 1981
Credit:The Age
At 3 am yesterday they had begun their work – searching for bolts and joins, pushing, pulling and dismantling. Bars were welded on to the sculpture so it could be lifted on to a truck and, at 8 am, just before the first churchgoers arrived in the city, two trucks and a crane moved the sheets of yellow metal across town to Batman Park.
Galesburg City Council approved a bid to bring Pickleball to Bateman Park on Monday night. The five members present all voted in favor, minus Dwight White who abstained. City Manager Todd Thompson says the original bid was about $97,000 to convert the two tennis courts into six pickleball courts. Then after a second look staff decided to not replace the current fencing. That brought the bid amount from All Weather Courts Inc. that was approved down to $51,800. Thompson says it's the city goal to replace the fencing at a later date. Thompson notes this item was not budgeted for but the council asked that this come forward. He says the city will use the fund balance to cover the costs. Railroad Days is back this summer and Galesburg Alderman on Monday voted to fund the event with about $11,000. The festival is scheduled for June 24–27, 2021 in downtown Galesburg. Event organizers believe they will be able to host a safe and fun event this year after COVID quashed its 50th annivers
GALESBURG The Lake Storey expansion study is being taken off of the 2021 budget, following Monday night’s city council meeting.
The decision, which will essentially end the planned study for the foreseeable future, was approved in a 4-2 vote, with one abstention, and one member of the council not present.
In favor of removing the item from the budget were council members Wayne Dennis, Jaclyn Smith-Esters and Sarah Davis. Bradley Hix and Larry Cox voted against removing the study from the budget, while Dwight White abstained. Abstaining votes are added into the majority in Galesburg, bringing the vote margins to 4-2 in favor. Member Lindsay Hillery was not present.
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Seafarers Rest, a 3,500 square metre public park in Docklands has received final approval from the City of Melbourne, with Oculus tasked with designing the park as part of Riverlee’s Seafarers development.
The park – sitting on the northern banks of the Yarra River – will provide more open green spaces to users, residents and visitors of the Northbank precinct, and will become a vital link between the area and the CBD. The park will be the largest outside of Birrarrung Marr that allows connection to the river, and will honour both its First Nation and European maritime history.
The project has been completed in collaboration by Riverlee, the City of Melbourne and the Victorian Government’s Department of Treasury and Finance. Final approval was granted at a Future Melbourne Committee meeting on Tuesday.
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