Susanville council approves civic contributions and authorizes continuation of Memorial Park grandstand emergency repairs

The Susanville City Council approved continued emergency action to remediate damage to the Memorial Park grandstand and accepted staff’s plan to pursue a longer-term replacement design, and separately approved two civic contribution requests.

City staff reported that an out-of-area electrical contractor working on emergency repairs caused damage; the contractor was removed from the job and staff engaged a local electrical contractor to complete emergency work with authority from the city’s insurer to proceed. The city has retained AST Engineering to develop a replacement grandstand design and the project will include ADA improvements. Staff said AST would produce a roughly 30% design and the city hopes to put the project to bid in two to three months, with possible construction timing to avoid conflict with the college’s sports seasons.

Council then voted to authorize continuation of the emergency actions to remediate the damage; the motion carried unanimously.

On a separate item the council approved civic contribution allocations: $500 from Mayor Schuster’s remaining discretionary allocation to the Chamber of Commerce for fireworks and $500 from Councilmember Bortle’s discretionary funds to the Susanville Indian Rancheria for its annual powwow. Those allocations were approved by majority vote during the meeting.

Staff said the emergency repairs will continue under insurance direction and that additional design work will proceed; council members did not identify additional funding actions beyond the emergency authorization at this meeting.