LOW ATTENDANCE AT PCUL MEETING DISCUSSING EVENT CENTER, BOAT CENTER, AND TRAILS

[My Northern Wisconsin]

   
Photo captured from livestream of PCUL meeting

Price County United Limited (PCUL) held a Spring Community Engagement meeting on Thursday, May 8, 2025, which was to begin at 5:30 p.m. and end at 7 p.m.  PCUL board members, Lyn Ludwig and Blake Pluemer, along with one other person, were in attendance at BW University in Phillips.  One more person and My Price County joined the online meeting.  The meeting was about 25 minutes in length.

The meeting covered a proposed community event and recreation center, community boat center with kayaks and a dock, and proposed trails.

The Woodson YMCA and The Landing, located in Wausau, were discussed as a vision for what could be in Phillips.  The YMCA has an upper level 1/4-mile indoor track and a gymnasium, which Lyn envisions coming to Phillips.  She said it would add another gym to the school gyms already available to the community (as the schools allow use for some group sports).  She mentioned areas of indoor exercise.  There are some other amenities that Wausau has, which Lyn does not see fit for Phillips, such as the pool, because Phillips already has a community pool.  The Landing is part of the Woodson YMCA, and it focuses on exercise for people who are 55 and older. 

Lyn also discussed PCUL being the parent non-profit organization for a community boat center, and she said someone has volunteered to assist with the kayak launch, which would have one or two launch sites along the "Lionite" shoreline and a fleet of kayaks that could be rented.  She focused on the Community Boating Center in Bellingham Bay, Washington.  She mentioned that PCUL could partner with them, so when they have events in Washington, such as the "Black Jack:  An African American Mariner Cruising the Inside Passage with Clyde Ford" presentation, which was behind held Thursday evening, Phillips could participate in that event as they could "pair the audio."

   
Image by:  PCUL

As for the trails, a map was presented.  However, Lyn said not all landowners have been contacted, so there are not current approvals for all the areas presented.  The yellow area shows the trails that could be implemented this year if there is approval by the City of Phillips, which Lyn stated is being "explored," though a previous city meeting did reject PCUL's idea to have trails running through the cemetery so an alternate route, possibly by the campground and along the shoreline, would need to be presented and approved.

The meeting concluded at 5:55 p.m.

   
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If not for a 1st grade spring concert last night I would have been at the meeting. Sadly, it looks like community members have given up.

Why do we need a 5th gymnasium in a community whose population is decreasing? Those already available for free or at extremely low cost are not fully used.

If PCUL were more open to discussing community desires and not only pushing theirs maybe, just maybe more than just board members would attend their meetings.