FOLEY — The city of Foley is one step closer to making its Centennial Plaza a reality.
During its regular meeting Monday, the Foley City Council voted to establish a bank account designed to accept funds collected for the plaza’s …
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FOLEY — The city of Foley is one step closer to making its Centennial Plaza a reality.
During its regular meeting Monday, the Foley City Council voted to establish a bank account designed to accept funds collected for the plaza’s construction.
“We are ready to begin fundraising,” said Suzanne Kellams of the Centennial Plaza Committee during the work session that preceded Monday’s City Council meeting.
The council first discussed the plaza last spring. Set to honor the 100th anniversary of Foley’s 1915 incorporation as a city, the $400,000 project is slated to include a four-story clock tower.
With Monday’s action, the council also gave the plaza committee the go ahead to establish a PayPal account, which is an online tool that would enable the acceptance of donations via the Internet.
According to Kellams, PayPal could prove to be quite useful.
“There are people from here who don’t live here anymore and would like to donate,” she said. “This will allow them to do it online.”
But that wasn’t the only construction project the council discussed Monday. Another source of discussion was the proposed ATRIP project that would improve roadway infrastructure in the city.
“We’ve settled on a project,” Butch Stokes told the council Monday. “Widening County Road 20 West.”
He added that ATRIP funding would pay for 80 percent of the project, while the remaining would be split between Baldwin County and the city of Foley.
According to Kellams, widening the 1-mile road would prove beneficial to traffic.
“Safety would be improved,” he said.
Following the discussion, the council gave the go ahead to seek grant money to fund its portion of the project by the March 30 deadline. If funding is acquired, the deadline to complete the project is December.
Also Monday, Foley Mayor John Koniar read a proclamation recognizing the Foley Fire Department’s upcoming fundraising project for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Fire fighers will be on Foley’s roadways both this and next weekend, collecting donations for the association.
