$180,000 in projects on city council agenda

The Maricopa City Council is scheduled Tuesday to approve the site plan for the city’s multigenerational and aquatic center and vote on spending up to $68,000 on projects in the Heritage District.

The multigenerational and aquatic center, which will be located at John Wayne Parkway and Bowlin Road, could be one step closer to construction if the mayor and city council vote to approve the site plan during the council’s regular meeting.  

Two Heritage District projects are on the agenda.

•    Mayor Christian Price and the council will vote on allocating up to $50,000 for the Heritage District Façade Improvement Program. The program will allow owners of business and residential buildings that face the street to apply for a grant to fund a new façade for the building.

In addition to the city’s $50,000, the city has applied for an $85,000 grant from the Gila River Indian Community to supplement city funds.

•    The council also will discuss spending up to $18,000 on a neighborhood park on Lexington Avenue that would also function as a retention basin. The money would go to adding benches, a picnic table, curbing, trash cans, an irrigation system, trees and rocks to the sides of the basin to prevent erosion, among other park amenities.

The council also will consider spending $112,000 on signature events and the local food bank.

•    A contract with the Action Alliance Network for producing this year’s Stagecoach Days, the 2013 Salsa Festival and the 2013 Great American Barbecue for $62,000 will be voted on. Action Alliance Network was the group that produced this year’s Great American Barbecue and facilitated Maricopa’s official attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Record’s largest water-pistol fight record.

•    The city may also enter into a contract with F.O.R. Maricopa for $50,000 for food bank services. The money is a matching grant for funds F.O.R. Maricopa has received from the Ak-Chin Indian Community and Caesar Foundation.