By Lisa Carolin, photos by Randall Lee
TimberTown Reimagined is a reality.
At its Aug. 13 meeting, the Chelsea Parks and Recreation Commission was pleased to recognize what Parks Chair Shawn Personke called, “an amazing week” and “a beautiful sight” referring to the new construction of TimberTown accomplished by close to 475 volunteers last week.
Fundraising will continue and legacy fence pickets are currently for sale on the https://www.timbertownchelsea.org/pickets, Those ordered by Sept. 30 can be installed in November of this year.
The Saturday, Aug. 17, official re-opening of the playground will depend on the weather. Watch the TimberTown website or Facebook page for announcements.
Personke said that the city has applied for two arts grants from the state of Michigan – one for $20,000 that could help pay for the art project and repair the mosaic, and another grant for $29,000 to pay for a pavilion over the pathway. The grants will be determined in October.
In the meantime, the Parks Commission voted to recommend to Chelsea City Council an expenditure of $5,000 to replace the brickwork leading to and around the Pathway to Renewal. This will further help with the ongoing drainage issue (in conjunction with the infrastructure updates). Fendt Building Supply will be donating the bricks, and a bricklayer has offered a 40-percent discount on labor.
It was also announced during the meeting that close to 500 people have responded to the city master plan survey. The site will remain open for the next couple weeks for anyone who still wishes to respond.
Go to https://www.city-chelsea.org/news_detail_T2_R39.php to take the survey.
The parks commission meets next on Sept. 3 at 9 a.m.
