The Bourbon Town Council members reviewed plans drawn up by Jones Petrie and Rafinski (JPR) engineers to determine the cost of the rehabilitation of the basketball courts at the town park to include the construction of pickleball courts.
Town Council President Ward Byers said interest was expressed the council about the construction of pickleball courts.
“That will take the basketball courts that currently run north and south and change those to east and west to side-by-side courts, and then to west of those courts would then be two proposed pickleball on the south side of that,” stated Byers.
Byers added that several Bourbon players travel to Bremen to participate in the sport.
Ryan Anderson from JPR said the basketball courts are deteriorating so a reconstruction would include new courts, new security lighting, apoxy-coated surfaces which are more adaptable to weather elements, bleachers, with one pickleball court in phase one. If there would be a phase two, a second pickleball court would be constructed.
The proposed reconstruction is approximately $780,000.
No decisions were made at the last meeting. Byers said the first step was to see how much reconstruction would cost. They can adjust the plans to fit a possible budget, and the town would seek different avenues of funding through possible Stellar funds, grants, or fundraisers.
