Cars entering and leaving Radio Springs Park will soon have to stop at the top of the hill on College Street, as well as before turning west from College Street to go to the play area on the west hill.

This will address one of several concerns Melissa Earll brought to the attention of the Nevada City Council during Tuesday night's meeting.

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"There are no sidewalks into the park and pedestrians are forced into the street," Melissa Earll told the council Tuesday.

She said that are also not signs in the park to alert drivers that children may be playing in the area.

Earll said that the speed limit on College Street is 30 mph, but many cars exceed the speed limit.

"I would suggest making the intersection at the entrance to the park a three-way stop," she told the council.

Nevada City Manager Bill McGuire said he would address the stop signs as soon as possible.

Joe Charles said that city manager can have signs installed at his discretion.

Earll told the council that she would also like to see the park closed to the public earlier than midnight to stop people from dumping trash in the park

"Why does it need to be open so late with no events going on?" she said.

Earll's third concern was with the city making all of its parks and facilities accessible to everyone in the community.

She said that the parks board needs to work more closely with the city's ADA coordinator, Richard Brockman.

Nevada Mayor Mike Hutchens said the Brockman will be attending an ADA symposium, next week, in St. Louis.

McGuire said the Brockman has been looking at the city's compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and has recently compiled a list of things that need to be addressed to meet the requirements.

Hutchens said that the parks board will consider Earll's other concerns and will make a recommendation to the city council.

In other business the council:

* Voted 5-0 to accept the low bid of $18,000 from HD Supply Waterworks, Blue Springs, for 15 Mueller fire hydrants to be used as replacement hydrants.

* Voted 5-0 to accept the low bid of $10,248 from Water Products of Oklahoma, Owasso, Okla. for 3,360 feet of pipe for water line replacement.

* Voted 3-2 to accept the low bid of $21,673 from Joe Machens Ford, Columbia, for two new police cars. Nevada Auto Mall submitted a bid of $24,012.40 per car, which was not accepted because of the significantly higher price. Joyce Wilson, Mike Hutchens and Bill Gillette voted yes and Russ Kemm and Tim Wells voted no.

* Voted 5-0 to accept the low bid of $11,562.28 from Airwave Communications of Nevada for security cameras for multiple city departments.

* Voted 5-0 to accept the low bid from MFA Oil to provide bulk fuel for the golf course and the wastewater treatment plant for the pump price minus the Federal tax and minus an additional three cents per gallon.

* Voted 5-0 to accept the low bid of $41,000 per dump truck from Custom Truck and Equipment LLC, Kansas City for a total of $82,000 for two dump trucks.

The city originally wanted to purchase three trucks with at an estimated cost of $90,000, because of the higher price, the city will purchase two trucks this year and replace the third truck next year if money is available.

* Voted 5-0 to accept the low bid from MFA Oil for automotive fuel at a cost of $.02 below the pump price for both gasoline and diesel fuel. At the time the bid was submitted the price for gasoline was $3.095 per gallon and diesel fuel was $3.735 per gallon.

* Passed on second reading a special ordinance transferring city owned property in the Klumpp Subdivision to the Nevada R-5 School District in exchange for another vacant lot owned by the district. The inadvertently built part of a structure on the property.

* Adopted Resolution No. 1221 accepting the requirements to accept a $15,000 grant from the USDA Rural Development to cover about 1/2 of the cost of running fiber optic cable to the new Vernon County Jail. Vernon County will pay its portion of the cost of installing the cable.