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Porter County parks board approves appropriations for Aukie Key restoration, consulting and site work
Summary
The Porter County Parks and Recreation Board voted to appropriate multiple funds — including $115,000 for park capital and $100,000 for landscape restoration at Aukie Key — and approved smaller appropriations for consulting and site work to prepare property for seeding and future infrastructure.
The Porter County Parks and Recreation Board on a unanimous vote authorized several appropriations to advance work at Aukie Key and other park projects, including $115,000 toward parked capital needs, $100,000 for landscape restoration at Aukie Key and $10,212.37 for engineering and consulting related to stormwater and restroom permitting.
The appropriations package follows staff presentations on site-prep estimates and consultant fees needed to move a former agricultural parcel into park-ready open space. The board’s action funds initial earthwork, seedbed preparation and engineering work needed for wetlands/drainage permitting and future entrance and pond work.
Board members said the money will pay local contractors to disc and grade fields, slice- or drill-seed…
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