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City manager outlines greenscape, grant bids and interim fire leadership
Summary
City Manager Marquette updated council on Greenscape Phase 1 streetscape work, state and federal grant applications (including a roughly $325,000 recreation project with an estimated $90,000 local match and a $4.5M West Main Phase 2 effort with $2M secured), reported a yard‑waste renewal and audit estimate, and announced an interim fire leadership team following Chief Shook's retirement.
City Manager Marquette briefed the council on March 9 about streetscape and capital plans, grant submissions, procurement updates and staffing changes in the public-safety department.
Marquette said Greenscape Phase 1 work—including brick and stamped concrete sidewalks, a pocket park near the community center and waterfront tree installations at Rotary Park—has resumed earlier than anticipated and sidewalk replacement on East Side South Broadway may start the week of the meeting.
He described a recreation project under consideration for the FY 2027 state capital…
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