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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Public input meeting set for July 9 for Perche Creek Trail Phase I</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Columbia Parks and Recreation is holding a public input meeting regarding the first phase of the Perche Creek Trail. The drop-in meeting will be held at the Jay Dix Station shelter, 3725 S. Scott Blvd., on Thursday, July 9 from 5 to 7 p.m. </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 4.5pt 0in 4.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: 1c1e21; background: white;">The project includes planning and construction of a multi-use, concrete trail approximately 1.1 miles in length. The Perche Creek Trail would connect the MKT Trail to Gillespie Bridge Road. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: 1c1e21;">The proposed trail would also complete a section of the planned 30-mile trail loop around the City of Columbia.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: 1c1e21; background: white;">Park staff will be available to discuss trail plans including the alignment and construction of a bridge over Perc</span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">he Creek, as well as taking your comments. Social</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;"> distancing guidelines will be in place during the meeting.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">An online survey is available through July 15 for those who are unable to attend the meeting; the survey is at this site: </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.como.gov/CMS/WebForms/form.php?formid=376&fbclid=IwAR2V5MXjgq4XyfvnO2eKplW4EDjw8alWmkDDd6unQfFCAlLqiy9M0xyg3E8" target="_blank"><span style="color: 385898;">https://www.como.gov/CMS/WebForms/form.php?formid=376</span></a> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 4.5pt 0in 4.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: 1c1e21;">The trail project is funded</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;"> by the 2015 voter-approved Park Sales Tax. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: 1c1e21;">An application for a federal Recreational Trails Program grant in the amount of $250,000 is in progress. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">For more information, contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 573.874.7460. </span></p></div>
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