Port Angeles City Council OKs Civic Field bond measure for August ballot

PORT ANGELES — The City Council approved today placing a $4 million Civic Field improvement bond on the Aug. 7 ballot.

The unanimous vote on the 20-year bond — which will cost an estimated $5.5 million after interest is calculated — occurred at the council’s fourth-Tuesday-of-the-month work session.

The measure will require 60 percent approval.

A Civic Field user-group committee has raised $10,000 of the $20,000 it seeks to collect to help pay for the election and for a campaign to convince citizens to approve the bond.

The bond would provide $3 million for synthetic turf.

Also purchased would be new light poles, lighting, a new boiler and new handrails for the bleachers.

If voters approve the bond, construction could start next summer and be completed in late 2013 or early 2014.

The bond would cost city property owners about $18 cents for every $1,000 of assessed valuation.

If approved, it would cost the owner of a $200,000 home an estimated $36 a year or $720 over the life of the bond.

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