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Atchison City Commission approved renovations to the Jackson Park brick shelter at Monday’s commission meeting.

Atchison City Commission approved renovations to the Jackson Park brick shelter at Monday’s commission meeting.

Jackson Park is the oldest park in Atchison. In the early 1900’s Zaremba E. Jackson, a prominent citizen and public official asked for the park to be upgraded. In honor of his efforts, the city leaders granted his request and named the park after Jackson.

Today the original shelter, hiking trails, and over 100 acres of land still are for public use. However, over the years the shelter has been fixed time and again but is still in terrible shape.

Clinton McNamee, public works and utility director gave a report for fixing the shelter. The 2022 CIP, included $75,000 for improvements to the Jackson Park brick shelter. The largest portion of that budget will go toward replacing concrete for the slab and the concrete stairs.

Additional improvements planned include: updating electrical and lighting, reconstructing the leaning brick pillar, and constructing a raised landscaping bed.

McNamee recommended and the commissioners agreed to hire Bottorff Construction to replace the concrete slab and stairs of the brick shelter in the amount of $25,745 with a change order authority of $1,500.

Bottorff Construction agrees to replace the slab, demo the existing concrete and haul spoils offsite, and replace the existing stairs. Also, they agree to do masonry which will include tuckpointing and replacing brick as needed.

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