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The Albia Trails Committee shared their 1.5-mile trail building plans with Monroe County Board of Supervisors, asking them to sign the 28E trail agreement which permits them to own and insure the areas of the trail that cross over private-owned land.
The 28E agreement is to save private landowners the hassle of liabilities, who have permitted for the trail to cross over on their land.
Phase one's estimated $700,000 tab will be paid by the accumulation of funds from the hotel-motel tax, local option sales tax and grants from Wellmark and the Monroe County Iowa Foundation. There is the debate between engineers and the Trails Committee on whether the 10-foot-wide proposed trail should be four or six inches deep due to the weight of the snow equipment needed for clearing the path during winter.
“The trail would begin at the southwest corner of the youth soccer field on Spruce Lane, head east on Spruce to the bottom of the hill and turn north into an unused and wooded portion of the Albia City Park. It would go beneath the Monroe County Aquatic Center on the north side, past the Rotary Club basketball court, then up the hill past the tennis courts to just to the west of the Little League park’s centerfield fence," Albia Newspapers reported. "It would then wind its way north on the Mick property to the asphalt road that borders the south side of the Sports Complex, would cross that road and follow the Sports Complex boundary to the Avery Road and then go straight east to the edge of the hospital property.”
Once funding is available, phase two discussions will consider the trail continuing through to the hospital.
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