Redoing Park Drive could cost more than $425,000.

The Jordan City Council asked for cost estimates for improvement to Park Drive, which runs alongside the Mill Pond and through Lagoon Park. City Engineer Carol Caron presented three concept plans, each of which included 90-plus paved parking spaces, and the council asked that the design include just a couple fewer parking spaces and a little bit more beach area.

"I'm envisioning that beach space is going to be at a premium," Mayor Ron Jabs said. 

The city of Jordan is reapplying for a grant it failed to receive last year from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

If the city is successful, the DNR’s local trail connection program would provide a 50-50 matching grant for a proposed trail system that includes a proposed trail along County Road 66 (aka Old Highway 169) in Jordan that recently escalated in price by about $20,000.

City Planner Casey MacCallum said a retaining wall is necessary along a segment of the county road.

When the ground freezes, Rachel Contracting will begin dredging the Mill Pond.

After a short discussion Oct. 15, the Jordan City Council decided not to move forward on building a gazebo in Timberline Park.

Jordan successfully earned a Safe Routes to School grant this year, so City Engineer Carol Caron asked the city council if it would like to apply again.

In 2002, the Jordan city staff told the city council that a fence owned by resident Ken Crane was encroaching on city property.

Almost two pages of the Jordan Park and Recreation Commission's August minutes, which the city council accepted at a meeting tonight, detailed a thorough discussion of portable bathrooms.

According to the August minutes of the Jordan Park and Recreation Commission, the group talked about:

- an adopt-a-park program;

It's been four days in the southwest, but due to internet issues at the hotel last night, I wasn't able to post anything. It's too bad, too, because yesterday was pretty awesome.