COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A public hearing will be held during Monday evening’s Coldwater City Council meeting as the city wants to submit an application for a $300,000 Michigan DNR Trust Fund grant. The grant will help fund the construction of a five-mile linear path that would connect the City of Coldwater and the Village of Quincy.
Coldwater City Manager Keith Baker says in his letter to the City Council that the local match for the grant would be provided for by an accompanying grant application to the Michigan Department of Transportation Alternatives Program.
Baker says the proposed project includes the expansion of the Coldwater linear trail from the trail head at Waterworks Park. It would connect to the existing Coldwater trail and extend it eastward five miles to Quincy.
The trail will include the addition of an accessible fishing pier, a boardwalk, riverbank stabilization, interpretive signs, a rain garden and landscaping.
The total cost of the project is $5.7 million.
It is being funded mostly through service clubs, private donations, DNR grants and the Michigan Department of Transportation Alternatives Program.
The Quincy Village Council passed a resolution this week which allows the village to apply for the same $300,000 DNR grant.
