Kimball, Tenn., Mayor David Jackson is seen in this file photo.KIMBALL, Tenn. – After waiting a year, city administrators learned they will get some state grant money for Kimball Park.
Gerald Parish, director of the Recreational Education Services Division of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, said the grant is for $158,000 “based on [Kimball’s] application score.”
Parish said the grant recipients did well on scoring criteria and the projects “expressed the greatest local recreation need.”
The grants must have a match commitment from the city, Parish said, and that means Kimball will spend a total of $316,000 on additions to the park.
Originally, city leaders had planned to use the money to install lights on the remaining unlit baseball fields at the park and construct a new boat dock on the nearby Tennessee River.