LINCOLN -- City residents are taking the Ozark Regional Transit bus to go about their business and Joel Gardner, executive director, said the new Route 620 has been a success.
"As far as I'm concerned it's a home run," Gardner told Lincoln City Council members on Sept. 8 at its monthly meeting.
"People are starting to use the fixed routes and the only complaint I've heard is they are not frequent enough," Gardner said. "Right now we have only one bus for the route."
Gardner said he's hoping when each city on the route receives its sales tax turnback funds from the state that each city will use 20 percent of it to help support the bus routes -- that would be $8,000 for Lincoln.
"We hope in about five years to be able to have Saturday and Sunday service so people going to the Clothesline Fair or Apple Festival can use our system to go back and forth to events," Gardner said. "Eventually we would like to see anybody here who wants to go to the AMP [in Rogers] be able to use the system to go there."
"We appreciate the service," Mayor Rob Hulse told Gardner.
Hulse signed a special order proclaiming Oct. 3 as Go Pink for the Cure Day.
"This is a very worthwhile cause," Hulse said.
Gov. Mike Beebe declared Oct. 3 as Go Pink for the Cure Day.
"It is being celebrated across the state and we feel honored to proclaim that we join the cause," Hulse said.
The proclamation urges all fellow citizens to wear pink ribbons and help promote the effort for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer.
Hulse also gave aldermen an update on sidewalks.
"We've started at South Park and we're close to completing it to Adams, then we'll pick up and finish building a sidewalk to Main Street," Hulse said. "We've had a lot of positive feedback from people on Mitchell Street. We're pleased with it and we'll soon have a sidewalk from South Park to the middle school."
Hulse said Phase 3 of the sidewalk project would continue from South Park and go down U.S. 62 toward the high school.
The mayor reported a low-water bridge at Lincoln Lake had been completed.
"All we need now is some landscaping, rocks and gravel and we'll be ready for the Lincoln Lake Festival in November," Alderman Doug Hutchens said.
Rhonda Hulse, city water manager, told aldermen new playground equipment and a grill have been added at the new Bumble Bee Park. The additional playground equipment and grill was bought with a grant the Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce received last month.
"We appreciate everything the Chamber has done to add to the playground equipment," Mayor Hulse said.
Rhonda Hulse said a $15,000 Cox grant for the library has resulted in two additional teen computers, tablets for tots and four more youth computers.
Al Videtto, city information technician, said the city was looking at building Kiosk desks on the east side of the children's area that would make it safer for children to use the tablets or computers.
"We've been open for six months and we're already expanding the library," the mayor said. "That says a lot for the community."
Videtto said the city also was looking at tablets for home-schooled children and for disabled children to use.
General News on 09/24/2014