Wayne wins $210,000 state grant for Atwood Park path; city details parks, roads and lead-line work

The Wayne City Council on Oct. 21 received a series of infrastructure and parks updates from the city manager that included a $210,000 state grant to replace the one-mile walk path in Atwood Park, a reported $588,000 increase in the city's local road funding and project updates on Gaudi Park, the downtown parking-structure demolition and ongoing lead-line replacements.

City Manager (first reference: 00:33:31) told the council, “one of the highlights of the 2026 state budget is that we were awarded a $210,000 grant to replace the walk path, the 1 mile walk path in Atwood Park.” The manager said the funding will allow the city to tackle a walk path that “if you walk it ... it's atrocious.”

The manager also said the state budget will boost Wayne's state revenue sharing by $45,405 and provide what the manager described as a 33.4 percent, or $588,000, increase to local road funding. Those increases, the manager said, will allow the city to resume road and water-main projects that had paused during lead-line replacement work.

Why it matters: the items the city manager outlined affect routine public safety and mobility (roads and water mains) and park amenities used by residents. The Atwood Park…