City OKs McDonald contract

A contract with Colfax Golf Club for mowing and upkeep of the city’s McDonald Park was approved by the Colfax City Council March 7. The contract sum will be $20,000, the same amount which was set last year when the contract was introduced.

One new addition to the arrangement will be inclusion of a check list for work to be done at the park. The list was introduced as a “pay for performance” clause which allows the McDonald steering committee to withhold pay in the event items on the check list are not completed.

McDonald Park is administered under a steering committee made up of representatives from the city and the school board. Councilman Jim Kackman Monday night said he believes the changes in the contract could resolve some of the disputes that surfaced when the mowing contract was introduced last year. He noted that for years upkeep of the McDonald playing fields was performed by volunteers who maintained a high standard and those expectations continued when the golf club was contracted to do the job.