Casa Grande council to further study rec center design
Item removed from Monday meeting agenda
By Rodney Haas | Casa Grande Dispatch
Star represents where the rec center will be located
The Casa Grande City Council removed from its Monday meeting agenda an item on spending $155,132 for preliminary designs for a proposed recreation center, instead opting for a separate study session.
That session will take place July 20, just before the council’s regularly scheduled 7 p.m. meeting.
Councilman Dick Powell said Wednesday the study session should be followed with a public hearing to give the community an opportunity to voice its concerns about what should and should not be included in the center’s design.
“(The council) has had no input. We have not discussed this, so why would we send this forward without input?” Powell said. “I thought that is what we are elected to do.”
The council could have approved a preliminary contract with Haydon Building Corporation to create schematic designs of what the center would look like. The center is to be constructed on land donated by the late Guy and Carlotta Gilbert on Peart Road between Kortsen Road and Cottonwood Lane. Funding was approved in an earlier public vote, but bonds were not sold because the city was waiting for better times to commit to operating costs.