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Today's Poll!Holts Summit residents hear plan for new YMCA facility
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
About 75 Holts Summit residents gathered Monday night at the Civic Center to hear plans for a new $475,000 YMCA facility in their town.
The public forum was conducted by the Holts Summit Board of Aldermen with Patty Miller, executive director of the YMCA of Callaway County, answering questions from those attending.
Many residents sought clarification on how the plan for the city to lease recreation programs to the YMCA would operate.
Miller described the proposed arrangement between the city and the YMCA.
She said a new 6,000-square-foot exercise and sports services center building would be constructed in Greenway Park next to the Holts Summit Civic Center. The YMCA also would pay to renovate the current Civic Center building, including new restrooms, flooring and windows.
The YMCA intends to spend about $475,000 on the new Greenway Park building complex.
Miller said the YMCA plans to construct a building with an indoor track and fitness center, and will operate recreational activities for the city from the new building. The attached and renovated civic center would continue to serve as a public meeting place for residents of Holts Summit.
The city would lease park recreation program functions to the YMCA for $1 a year for a 30-year period. Current free public use of the parks would continue, but the YMCA could lease the pavilion and civic center for private functions at nominal fees.
Mayor Lucus Fitzpatrick said he was pleased at the large turnout at the meeting. He assured residents at the meeting that the city would never sell any of the park land and that free public use of the parks would continue.
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Comments
mia 3 months, 3 weeks ago
That town never ceases to amaze me. Drive down Summit Drive sometime. PLEASE clean it up. You are investing all of that money in a Y, yet there are broken down junk cars sitting in yards. Unreal. Take a gander across from the "recreation center". Not nice.
usmc007 3 months, 3 weeks ago
When will the YMCA on Amazons be completed, Just saying, What about finishing that project first and as a faithful member, The YMCA out west is lacking some major components.
JCLifer 3 months, 3 weeks ago
They are trying to be careful as to not attract the "wrong element" to the uppity west location.
melbrooks 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Jefferson City Area YMCA and the Callaway county YMCA are separate entities.
JCLifer 3 months, 3 weeks ago
It isn't much different than East McCarty Street. Drive down there and see all the junk cars, junk metal, rusted rotted old buildings. A-1 Small Engines was kind of picked up there for a while, but someone has already trashed it with mattresses and junk thrown all over their yard sitting out in the rain.
We are very close to the Ozarks, and it it easy to see.
herb 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The city and the YMCA decided on the area for the new facility. The city needs to enforce their ordnances. I agree some of the yards and homes on Summit Dr. have more junk than you or I could ever collect. Some of those homes are outside the city limits and Callaway County has no ordnance for that kind of thing. Look at the trailer parks. I don't have a lot of faith in the city or the county, never have. There is a cross walk at the school that needs to be repainted, it gets worse and worse, you can't see it anymore. No crossing guard. Something will be done when someone gets hurt.
MO4LIFE 3 months, 2 weeks ago
a 2nd grader got hit by car in 1981 outside of north elementary and all of thetrailer parks in HS are not trashed. Winterwood Estates down OO past Mosers is very nice and nowhere close to trashed like Seges and J&L......
connor 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Isn't Winterwood outside the city limits? In fact aren't most of them? Now that I think about it the only one I think that is inside the limits is the one down past the fire station that is hidden over the hill and I seem to remember someone telling me the owner of that one was making everyone move the trailers out a few years ago.
As a matter of fact I have to defend Holts Summit here really they have cleaned up the streets and area fairly well over the last few years from my perception anyway. I don't live there but I do shop there and drive through fairly often.
connor 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Oh ya the one by caseys is inside the city limits. Forgot that.
MO4LIFE 3 months, 2 weeks ago
J&L is in city Limits And Seges is in City Limits and as far as Winterwood goes..... There is one or two streets that sre in city limits so therefore according to HS if any part of the property is in HS the whole property is in HS. Weird I know but trash service and all of that charges the city rate not the rural rates.
herb 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I am terribly sorry if I have offended anyone. That was not my intent. I was just pointing out that it seems as though the landlords of several of the mobile home parks do not enforce a " clutter " rule if you will. J&L, Seges, the one on Summit Drive ( cant think of the name), and the one across the street are all in the city limits. My intent was to comment on the YMCA, somehow I have elaborated more on trash than the subject at hand. my apologies.
connor 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I didn't get the impression anyone was offended herb. I just don't see the area as especially "trashy" in my minds eye at least. As far as trailer parks go Winterwood seems to be fairly orderly from what I have seen. The one down by caseys I seem to remember has some old and destroyed trailers in full view. The vacant area next to that trailer park that had all the old carnival rides rusting in it has been cleared with lots of new duplexes as well I think.
I just don't see alot of trashiness is all although yes that one park is looking rather bad now that I really think about it.
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