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City holds second public hearing on two 2025 CDBG projects: Victory Park playground, North End sidewalk
Summary
At a May 20 public hearing the Washington Terrace City Council heard staff explain two projects awarded under the 2025 Community Development Block Grant program: replacement of playground equipment at Victory Park and a street-accessibility/sidewalk project at the North End. Staff said contracts and bidding will follow pending final paperwork.
Washington Terrace held a second public hearing May 20 to gather citizen input on two projects awarded federally funded Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money for the 2025 program year: a playground replacement at Victory Park and a street accessibility and sidewalk project at the city’s North End.
Amy Rodriguez, identified in the hearing as the city’s Grama Manager, described the Victory Park work as a full replacement of the park’s playground equipment originally purchased when the park was constructed in February 2005. "The new equipment that's there now is weather damaged. It's missing parts," Rodriguez said, adding staff has removed unsafe components and will replace the structures and surfacing with new slides, climbing structures, ADA swings and an upgraded playground covering. Rodriguez said the city expects to put the work out to bid "probably July."
Rodriguez said the North End project at roughly 600 West 5100 South will add curbing, a sidewalk with ADA ramps, a marked crosswalk, traffic signage, a replacement fence, a retaining wall and landscaping to create a safer entrance and to keep pedestrians off the street.
During the hearing staff introduced Jake Mibus as the project manager for the CDBG application and identified Carlos Grama as the project manager for the Victory Park work. The hearing record included a staff statement that the North End street-accessibility project was awarded $116,807 of a total project cost listed as $189,930. The transcript record for the Victory Park award includes inconsistent numbers (the record states "665,000 of the total project cost of $200,880"), and staff did not clarify the apparent discrepancy during the hearing. The exact awarded amount and total cost for Victory Park were therefore not specified in the transcript.
Council members had no substantive questions at the hearing; one council member said she looked forward to the safety improvements at the North End. No public commenters spoke during the hearing.
The city said the CDBG contract award is expected to be finalized in July, after which construction procurement will proceed. No formal council vote on funding or contract award occurred during the May 20 meeting; the hearing was for public input and to document the city’s intent to proceed with the awarded projects.
Clarifying details and unresolved figures from the hearing are included below.
