Search for park funding continues

The search for funding continues.

A proposal to build a skateboard park in Havre with federal dollars already earmarked for the renovation of a parking lot has been nixed.

Havre Mayor Bob Rice, at a meeting last week with the Havre Skateboarders Association, recommended the city transfer about $43,000 of CTEP money allocated for repairs to the Sixth Avenue Ballpark parking lot to the efforts to build a skateboarding and in-line skating facility in Havre.

Skate parks, though, don't meet the criteria for CTEP funding, according to Craig Erickson, planner at Bear Paw Development Corp. Erickson ov...