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City wins two $150,000 habitat and angler-access grants for Kirby Lake and Fort Phantom
Summary
Parks staff said the city received two $150,000 habitat and angler-access grants to replace the Kirby Lake fishing pier with a multiuse pier and add a fishing pier/boat dock at Fort Phantom’s Southeast Boat Ramp; projects will be staggered and must be completed by August 2027.
Leslie (parks staff) told the Parks Board the city received two habitat and angler-access grants, each for $150,000, to improve boating and fishing access at Kirby Lake and Fort Phantom.
"We did receive a habitat and angler access grant, this session. The grant will it's two $150,000 grants," Leslie said. She told the board the first project, at Kirby Lake, will replace an aging fishing pier with a multiuse pier that will also allow boat parking. The second award will fund a new fishing pier and boat dock at Fort Phantom’s Southeast Boat Ramp, where no pier currently exists.
The projects are staggered: staff said Kirby Lake is the first project and work on Fort Phantom will begin in the following grant cycle. Leslie said both projects are scheduled to be complete by August 2027.
A board member asked whether the $150,000 covers the full budget for each project. Leslie said the grants are reimbursable and that the city expects to contribute in-kind work and some matching costs. "It is a 100% reimbursable grant. Now there will be some things that we do in kind," she said, adding that staff will handle demolition and some site work in-house and that engineering for Fort Phantom is already included in the project planning.
Board members thanked staff and Parks and Wildlife for helping secure the grants. Michael, who staff identified as working for Parks and Wildlife, was mentioned as assisting with the application.
The grants were presented as informational; no formal vote on the awards occurred during the meeting.
The board packet lists project sequencing and target completion dates; staff said the work will follow the grant cycles and that the Fort Phantom work will start in the year after Kirby Lake work begins.
