The Atlantic City Council, Wednesday evening, agreed to commit $26,800 toward the construction of a trail around Lake #2 at the Schildberg Recreation Area. That’s $4,200 less than what they had expected to be asked to commit. Atlantic Parks and Rec Director Roger Herring said that was because the original calculations had figured-in the cost of a 600-linear foot section of the trail that the Nishna Valley trails group has agreed to cover.

Proposed additional trail around Lake #2 at the Schildberg Rec Area.

Herring said the City’s commitment of 20-percent of the estimated $134,000 cost of the project would fulfill a requirement that  makes the City eligible for a TAP (Transportation Alternatives Program) Grant from the State of Iowa, to complete a large portion of the trail, which will eventually become part of the Troublesome Creek Connector Trail Project. The City’s portion can consist of the local match can consist of labor used to build a portion of the trail around Lake #2, in addition to or in lieu of funding.

In other business, the Council will held a Public Hearing on the sale of Lot A, in the Southern Heights Subdivision 2nd Addition.  The land was appraised at, and after a public hearing, sold for, $1,620 to local developer Don Sonntag, who originally had donated the land to the City for development of a street, the plans for which was later shelved. Iowa Code requires the land to be sold, and not returned to a private party free of charge.

The Council also set March 4th as the date for: a Public Hearing on the adoption of the proposed Fiscal Year 2016 Capital Improvement Plan; A hearing on the proposed sale of $1.58-million in General Obligation bonds for the CIP, and, adoption of the proposed FY 2016 budget.