Coulee Dam, Tribes may put in a splash pad

 

Last updated 3/4/2020 at 10:53am



Officials at Coulee Dam last week gave a tentative green light to a Colville Tribes proposal to add a splash pad to the town’s park features to cool kids down in the summer.

Frank Andrews approached the city council Wednesday with the idea, noting that the tribes could draft a grant application to submit jointly to a state agency that funds such projects.

It could go on trust land controlled by the tribes across from the popular playground at Mason City Memorial Park near Harvest Foods, he said.

Coulee Dam, along with other cities on or near the reservation, last year endorsed a reservation-wide parks and recreation plan that would allow such cooperation between the Colville Tribes and the municipalities.

Gov. Jay Inslee in January appointed Okanogan resident Henry Hix, who is the chief of natural resource enforcement for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, a member on Washington state’s Recreation and Conservation Funding Board, which awards about $250 million in grants every two years.

“I appreciate that you guys are supplying the property and willing to do the work to get the grant,” Councilmember Keith St. Jeor told Andrews.

 

Reader Comments(0)

 
 

Powered by ROAR Online Publication Software from Lions Light Corporation
© Copyright 2024

Rendered 02/14/2024 16:32