The city of Bowling Green is looking to apply for a grant that would help fund major improvements to Riverwalk and Weldon Peete parks.

On the agenda for Tuesday’s Bowling Green City Commission meeting is consideration of a grant application seeking up to $750,000 from the National Park Service. The grant requires a 50 percent match, and city Parks and Recreation Director Brent Belcher said the city would provide its $750,000 share for a project cost of $1.5 million.

The funds would be used for a boat ramp, fishing platforms, a rock climbing park, disc golf course, picnic pavilions, restrooms, parking lots and greenways linking the two parks on either side of the Barren River.

“The goal is connectivity” between Riverwalk and Weldon Peete parks, Belcher said.

Such improvements are part of the city’s parks and recreation long-term master plan approved last year.

Belcher said the city may receive only a portion of the requested $750,000 and therefore only some of the projects would be done at this point. The priority project would be the boat ramp into the Barren River because that would give rescue workers better access to the river.

Even with a full $1.5 million, the extensive proposed project would likely cost more – about $3 million – and have to be done in phases.

“That would not (fund) the entire development,” Belcher said of the $1.5 million.

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•filing a grant application for $3.31 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The funds would be used for fleet improvements to the GO bg system, including replacing five buses. This is a competive grant process with no timeline of when the award will be made.

•accepting a bid of $415,000 from Carter Douglas Co. of Russellville for a new Fairview Cemetery maintenance building.

•paying a $50,000 bill from the Kentucky Auditor’s Office for its review last year of the downtown parking garage wrap project, then known as Hitcents Park Plaza. The office of former Auditor Adam Edelen conducted the review of the troubled project and found it was plagued by lack of oversight, mismanagement and questionable spending by the former developers. The county is also being billed $50,000 for the audit.