Park Board Approves Rental of Pete Thorn Gymnasium
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Jennifer Peryam-jperyam@timesuniononline.com
Warsaw Park Board approved allowing the community to rent out the Pete Thorn Center gymnasium on weekends during Tuesday night’s meeting.
The gym is on Park Avenue where the Boys and Girls Club of Kosciusko County previously was located. It is in the facility that currently houses the Council on Aging and Aged and the parks offices.
However, the board still needs to determine the cost for the rentals, types of rentals allowed, whether or not a damage deposit will be included, and rules and guidelines for gym rentals.
Staci Young, parks activities office director, and Jon Garber, parks superintendent, will discuss guidelines and rules for those who rent out the gym and make a recommendation to the board in November.
Also during the meeting, Garber informed the board that people can rent the former Boggs Activities building in Boggs Addition.
The rental fee is $125 per day Monday through Thursday, and $150 per day Friday through Saturday and on holidays. The rental capacity for the Boggs Building is 100 people.
Also during the meeting Pat Brown, Site Scapes, a company hired to put together a five-year master plan for Warsaw parks department attended the meeting to provide an update on the master plan.
Brown said the master plan draft was submitted to the Department of Natural Resources last month.
The draft also was available for the community to review at the library, city hall, and parks offices and on the city website.
The DNR provided recommendations for the master plan draft including there be information in the draft on public input from prior public meetings on the master plan.
The DNR also suggested there be suggestions in the master plan on where future park growth could be located in the town.
The board plans to adopt the master plan during its November meeting.
During the meeting, Warsaw Mayor Ernie Wiggins swore in new board member Michelle Boxell, who replaces Toby Sumpter.
Young provided an update on the Fall Family Fun festival that was Saturday at Lucerne Park and said 800 people attended, and there were 350 goody bags distributed.
Young also informed the board the parks department has received a $26,480 insurance claim for the cancellation of the country concert this past summer that will be used toward next year’s country concert.
