The Winamac Town Park will soon get a new wheelchair-accessible swing. Phillip Crippin has offered to add the swing as part of an Eagle Scout project. After reviewing his proposal, the town’s park board earlier this month agreed to let him proceed.
Continue readingEagle Scout projects continue to be considered by the Winamac Park Board. Board members Thursday voted to let Shawn Pratt install a gaga ball pit in Rhinehart Park, but they wanted to do more research before letting him add one to the Town Park.
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Upgrading the historic Pulaski County Courthouse could cost between $4.5 and $6 million. Residents and government leaders filled the Circuit Courtroom Tuesday to hear the preliminary findings of Rowland Design’s facilities study.
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The Pulaski County Commissioners decided Monday to move ahead with some office relocations, but not without a heated discussion about the county’s facilities. The commissioners voted to temporarily move the Assessor’s Office from the basement of the courthouse upstairs to the commissioners’ current meeting room.
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The Pulaski County Commissioners have attempted to provide some clarification about the future of the County Courthouse. In a press release read during Tuesday’s meeting, the commissioners said they’ve been presented with a number of issues with the current building that have to be addressed.
Continue readingConstruction’s set to start today on a new elevator at the Pulaski County Courthouse. That will cause some changes for government business for the next several months.
Knox City Council members appointed Clerk-Treasurer Jeff Houston to the position of ADA Coordinator when they met Tuesday night. Members also approved an ordinance pertaining to ADA procedures.
Houston informed the council of the seven suggested steps that public entities must take, related to the American’s with Disabilities Act.
The first step is implementation. Houston explained they initially took this step a few years ago when they renovated city sidewalks to be ADA compliant. Continue reading
The Pulaski County Courthouse elevator is another step closer to getting replaced. On Monday, the county commissioners chose TL Kincaid Contracting to build the new elevator for $489,000.
The Pulaski County Courthouse elevator is a step closer to getting replaced. Bids from three construction companies were opened during last week’s county commissioners meeting. They ranged from $489,000 to over $594,000. The bids will now be reviewed by Maintenance Supervisor Jeff Johnston, County Attorney Kevin Tankersley, and representatives from Keystone Architecture, before the commissioners make a decision.
The replacement of the elevator at the Pulaski County Courthouse has been delayed slightly. “Because we got no bids on the elevator project, we had to push the date back for construction,” Maintenance Supervisor Jeff Johnston told the county council and commissioners Monday. “With pushing it back to March, we were able to get three interested parties.”
Plans for a new elevator at the Pulaski County Courthouse were presented to the county commissioners this week. Cameron Chambers with Keystone Architecture explained that it will be in the same general location as the current one, but it will be a little bigger.”On the first floor, you’ll enter it coming in off that main hallway, with one door, and when you go upstairs, you’ll have the same door right above it,” he explained. “We’ll actually end up creating a storage closet there, so when you come up the stairs from the ground to the main floor, you’ll now be forced to go left because right will be enclosed by this elevator.”
Similarly, the new elevator will block the hallway on the top floor of the courthouse. To provide access to rooms on either side, the elevator will have two doors on that level. Continue reading
Pulaski County continues to deal with some maintenance challenges at its government buildings. Elevators at the courthouse and the annex building were both repaired earlier this summer, but Maintenance Supervisor Jeff Johnston told the county commissioners Monday a few issues remained. Continue reading
The Starke County Commissioners are a step closer to formally seeking a grant to replace the courthouse elevator. They conducted a public hearing as part of that process during their meeting last night. Continue reading
The Pulaski County Courthouse is currently without an elevator, and that will likely continue on and off for much of the next year.
The Pulaski County Courthouse elevator is another step closer to getting replaced. The county commissioners approved an addendum Monday to move forward with the design for a new elevator.
The Winamac Park Board is moving ahead with a grant application for the town’s swimming pool rebuilding project. The town’s applying for up to $200,000 in matching money from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund through the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Before turning in the grant application, the park board held a public hearing Monday to give residents a chance to weigh in on the project. Continue reading
The Pulaski County Commissioners will once again revisit tourism advertising this morning. Last month, they rejected a proposal from the Community Development Commission to run commercials on Comcast cable systems in the Chicago area, as well as buy some online advertising. Continue reading
Pulaski County is moving ahead with accessibility upgrades to the courthouse restrooms. Continue reading
The Pulaski County Council will consider funding arrangements for courthouse restroom upgrades. During tonight’s meeting, Maintenance Supervisor Jeff Johnston is expected to request an additional appropriation to make the basement restrooms more accessible to people using wheelchairs. Continue reading
Work continues to make the Pulaski County Courthouse more accessible to those with disabilities. Specifically, maintenance workers have been making updates to the basement restrooms, such as the addition of marble vanities. Continue reading
