Glenwood Springs City Council members reversed an earlier decision to cut costs on the new park and agreed Thursday to spend an extra $58,000 to buy sod.
Seeding the park would cost $5,000 to $8,000, but would also delay use of the park until fall 2003. By laying sod next spring, the ballfield could be used almost immediately.
"Reports of the sodless park stirred up a lot of people about when the park could be used," city parks and recreation manager Dan Rodgerson said.
City Council members heard about it, too, and were easily persuaded to pull the $58,000 from the fund that collects parkland dedication fees.
The original cost for sodding the park was bid at $90,000 by the park's contractor, Gould Construction.
Rodgerson said Little League families offered free labor to place the sod, and landscape architect John Taufer suggested that only the ballfield itself be sodded. Those savings cut the cost of buying sod to $58,000.
Councilman Larry Emery said the expense would still leave enough money in the fund to pay for tennis courts at the Community Center.
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