The Elkhart Board of Works voted Oct. 21 to approve a bundled Comcast street service order to bring wired Internet to Walker Park and Woodlawn Nature Center buildings.

David Hopkins, network administrator for the city IT department, said the parks department requested Internet access for both sites and Comcast offered better pricing for a bundled contract. The installation will run coaxial Internet to each building with a special router that ties the site into the city network; Hopkins said the initial build is intended to support internal city devices such as cameras and staff computers rather than provide immediate public Wi-Fi.

Hopkins said Walker Park does not yet have active access and the city asked Comcast to defer construction until contract approval. The board approved the service order by voice vote and staff confirmed the parks department has budgeted for the work.