Text Box: prominent institutions upon it, and now a generous contribution from the State, as well! Asbury College was a very generous financial partner in helping the City to construct the road, and the 32 acres of land and the first $200,000 used for park development was donated by Ichthus Ministries! The City has already constructed two soccer fields, a playground and a picnic pavilion on the site, as well as restored a log cabin and built a gravel road off of Kinlaw Dr. to the property. Very soon to come is a “Frisbee” disc golf course. (Sorry, but the pretty little portable restroom is the best we can do for now!) Most of these amenities are available to the community seven days a week during daylight hours. (Contact Wilmore Parks and Recreation at 858-9031 if you have any questions.) The grant is expected to pay for a paved perimeter walking trail, basketball courts, the paving of the road and parking areas, several larger trees, and a new riding mower to maintain the entire beautiful park! The City of Wilmore is very grateful to be a partner with so many people and institutions who care about our great little town and who our willing to invest in things that help us improve our infrastructure and add to our quality of life. Again, many thanks to State Senator Tom Buford and State Representative Bob Damron who continue to work hard in Frankfort for ALL of Jessamine County! Text Box: State Representative Bob Damron and State Senator Tom Buford were instrumental in helping the City secure funding for three different projects for our community. The funds were appropriated in this year’s State budget and will be disbursed in 2007. A $200,000 grant will significantly begin to fund the City’s effort to automate our water meter reading in the community. The water meters in all of our residential neighborhoods will be replaced with units that have little-bitty radio transmitters in them that send out a signal that will be read by a receiver in a pickup truck. The City currently expends over 60 man hours every month to read water meters. The new system will take less than 2 hours. (And the radio signal can never be misread, completely eliminating human error when reading a meter!) Not only will the City drastically reduce the time used to read meters, but every single meter will be brand new and will accurately read all the water that is used by each customer, thereby enhancing our revenue. (As a water meter gets old it always “deteriorates” to the customer’s advantage. An older water meter can only register less water than is actually used; never more water than is actually used.) A second $200,000 grant will be used for sanitary sewer rehabilitation; basically fixing weaknesses in sewer lines that allows rain water to enter into the pipes. All of that money will be spent trying to eliminate what we call “manhole surcharges” (you can probably guess what that is, so we will spare a graphic description for the sake of the young and squeamish who might be reading!) The third grant is for $250,000 for Centennial Park development; the City’s 32-acre park adjacent to the Ichthus grounds. Centennial Park already has the “fingerprints” of several Text Box: The City of Wilmore recipient of three different grants totaling $650,000