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- Written by: Bryan Hunt - Breese Journal Editor
Better communication and a solution to water issues are two things Carlyle city officials sought from Clinton County Board officials Monday.
Carlyle Mayor Judy Smith, City Administrator Brad Myers and Carlyle Ward 1 Alderman Jim McClaren were on hand to ask county officials about water drainage issues from the new health department building.
Smith and Myers addressed the board in public comments at the meeting's start.
The new building is being erected on county-owned land at the corner of Tenth and Franklin streets in downtown Carlyle.
On July 14, Myers said he sent Johannes Construction Co. of Centralia, the project's general contractor, and Clinton County Board Chairman Brad Knolhoff, a proposal, including a diagram of what the city of Carlyle would like for a drainage system, because of water from the building's sump pump which has been running down Tenth Street.
Myers said he's received numerous complaints about that water situation.
Myers said he also talked to Knolhoff about that, with both supposedly agreeing that situation could not stay that way, that water running out into the guttering was not acceptable.
Knolhoff asked if the letter/email had been sent to project architect Gary Karasek, of U Studios Inc., of Swansea, and Myers said it had.
Smith said city officials did meet with Johannes personnel and others about the problem, on the construction property in July.
Myers said the proposal called for underground, 10-inch conduit and a couple of box culverts. The line would drain at the corner of Tenth and Fairfax streets.
Myers said he'd never heard back from county officials on whether or not that was the route they would go with the drainage project.
"Well, it did not get done that way," Myers said, "and what is there now is actually all the sump pump water in the gutter are just going to flow right on out to the street."
That would result in the same problem they would have had before, with the amount of water that's running, this winter it will pool and cause a problem in that area, at Tenth and Fairfax streets, Myers said.
Some days the water ran out of the system well, when the weather was hot.
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A sizable crowd attended the Sept. 12 town hall at the Breese Knights of Columbus hall to hear about proposals for a dog park in the city. Residents with concerns were allowed to share those with city officials and members of the dog park committee trying to establish the park. Photo by Bryan Hunt No action was taken at a Sept. 12 meeting in Breese on a proposed dog park, but the next steps in establishing that park were fleshed out.
The meeting, held at the Knights of Columbus hall, attracted more than 50 people.
The city of Breese has endorsed the group's plan for a dog park at the Breese Soccer Park on Holy Cross Lane.
But shortly after that blessing, appeals began coming in about establishing the dog park in the northwest corner of Northside Park near the bocce ball courts.
Among those at the meeting were some members of the Breese Park Board, the Breese City Council and other city administrators.
Breese Mayor Kevin Timmermann and dog park committee head Walker Mondt addressed the gathering.
Timmermann also polled the audience for their questions and concerns about the project.
A number of people serving on the dog park committee were on hand, donning their green "Volunteer" T-shirts for the gathering.
The group even had diagrams of how the proposed sites would look.
The next steps
Timmermann wants to go ahead and stake out both dog park locations, "just to see what we have, and let the park board look at it again."
He said maybe there would be differing opinions once everything is laid out for people to actually see.
The dog park committee would be laying out the park dimensions, and Mondt said he would want park board members on hand to see this happen, so that if any changes are called for, they can happen immediately.
A woman asked Timmermann to let residents in both areas know when the dog park is being laid out.
Hearing from the public
One man, who's in favor of the Northside Park location, did mention the unused bocce ball court in the park as possible space for the proposed park.
One woman said she'd like to see more green space, and also mentioned problem trees, with some being old and at risk of possibly falling, to where someone could get hurt.
