Deer Creek council hears update on pickleball court project
News | Published on March 31, 2026 at 2:43pm GMT+0000 | Author: Tucker Henderson
0By Chad Koenen
Publisher
The Deer Creek City Council expressed its desire to continue assisting in the purchase of the pickleball and basketball courts near the former Deer Creek School.
During its regularly scheduled meeting last week, the city council heard an update concerning the ongoing negotiations between the city and property owner Dominic Koep, who purchased the school several years ago. The Deer Creek Lions Club has expressed an interest in fixing up the pickleball and tennis courts for community use, but only if the city owned the property and not a private citizen.
The two sides continue to negotiate on a price for that portion of the property and no purchase agreement has been signed to date as the two sides continue to express a mutual interest of having the city own the property for the greater good of the community.
In other news
• Held a public hearing regarding an easement request from Arvig to install fiber internet to the Deer Creek area. Once the infrastructure is in place later this summer, or next year, residents will be able to hook up to fiber internet from Arvig as they want in the future.
• Approved a three-year fireworks contract to provide a fireworks show at Deer Trails Day. The contract does not need to be paid up front and can be billed annually.
• Heard from Adam Arenson who was interested in splitting his property into two lots to construct a new house on the second lot. The lots would be approximately 1-1 1/2 acre apiece after splitting the property into two.
• Heard the monthly police report from NY Mills Police Chief Bobby Berndt who stated the department averaged about 30 hours of service last month.
• Approved by a 2-0 margin with Jayme George and Danny Hendershot abstaining, a wage increase for fire department members that would increase wages from $10 per hour to $15 per hour. The townships have already agreed to the increase in wages.
• Approved 50 loads of Class 5 gravel for city roads, which is similar to the same amount of Class 5 that the city purchased for roads last year.