New lights coming soon to Mini Majors fields
Work to be completed in September
Some future ball games at the Mini Majors section of Harlan and Hazel Rogers Sports Complex will be played under the lights.
The City Council on Monday made that possible by ordering lights from Musco Sports Lighting, of Oskaloosa. The lights and their installation will cost $590,087.
That money will come from a previous general obligation bond issue.
The Mini Majors section of the sports complex is called that because it consists of fields built to look like small versions of famous Major League Baseball stadiums.
The new lights will be going up at the local versions of Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field and Fenway Park. The work is expected to be completed in September.
Wrigley Field and Fenway Park will be getting an update this year that includes new fencing, dugouts, netting, scoreboards and reconstructed infields. Doyle Construction, of Fort Dodge, has a $1,898,291.50 contract to do that work, plus build a parking lot and storm water retention features.
Yankee Stadium in the Mini Majors got an update last year that includes artificial turf so that it can be the home of the Iowa Central Community College softball team.
Also on Monday, the council purchased chairs, workstations, a conference table and some other furniture for the Municipal Building from Workspace Inc., of Des Moines, for $48,190.03.