Ribbon-cutting planned July 1 for Chautauqua Park bathrooms

FAIRFIELD – The city of Fairfield will open the newly completed bathrooms in Chautauaqua Park during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon on Tuesday, July 1.

The new building is located near Shelter 2, and within a few hundred feet of Shelter 3 and the main parking lot. It contains four separate, single-user ADA-accessible restrooms, with drinking fountains outside.

Fairfield City Engineer and Public Works Director Melanie Carlson said the restrooms were funded entirely by the Edd Felgar Estate. They were designed and furnished by Romtec, Inc., and the general contractor was Hooyer Construction of Pella.

The city had planned to open new bathrooms in Chautauqua Park in 2024, but rising costs forced the city to reduce the scope of a project that initially sought to build a larger building containing five individual bathrooms, a locker room for parks staff, and a section for storage. The city asked contractors to bid on this project and an accompanying project of a new shelter at Waterworks Park, and expected the two projects combined to cost about $718,000, with most of that coming from a $500,000 grant from the Edd and Darlene Felgar Estate. But when only one bid came in, and for just over $1 million, the city was forced to put the plan on hold.

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