The Keota City Council held their regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday night at city hall. Stated on the meeting agenda Denny Lyle was scheduled to give an update on the Keota Unlimited-Trailhead project. Mayor Tony Cansler describes this project, “What they’re looking at doing here is, working on getting an area set up where the trailhead that runs from Washington would come through at Keota and stop there at the Farmer Co-Op on Broadway. What they’re planning on doing is eventually putting a pavilion up with restrooms and stuff like that.”

Cansler says progress so far on the pavilion has been groundwork, drainage and installing culverts.

Another topic on the agenda was to review and approve a survey to conduct with Keota residents concerning opening a daycare center. Cansler says a daycare center has been in talks since January. Cansler gives details of this survey, “What we have to do is we have to go through and survey most of the residents in the city, and basically all that is a low to moderate income survey to find out approximately what the average income is in town, and that would let us know what grants and loans we would be eligible to get to help put a daycare in the city limits.” Cansler says these door-to-door surveys will be conducted between now and May 15th.