The Gilroy City Council approved plans for new pickleball courts at Las Animas Veterans Park, awarding a $1.2 million contract to Monterey Peninsula Engineering to build the project.
The council unanimously approved the contract and funding at the June 15 meeting. The city will fund the project, which features six new courts, with $155,000 from the facilities fund; $344,190 from the recreation fund; and about $860,000 previously appropriated to the fiscal year 2026 capital budget.
The total cost of the contract with Monterey Peninsula Engineering is $1,288,000, including a 5% contingency, according to city staff.
Six companies submitted bids for the project, all of which exceeded the city’s estimated costs. City staff recommended appropriating facilities and recreation funds to cover the difference for the lowest bid submitted by MPE.
In recent years, interest has grown in Gilroy for permanent public pickleball courts, and in the spring of 2025 the city council added the project to the capital budget.
The project will add six pickleball courts at Las Animas Park, located at 400 Mantelli Drive.
Since Sharks Ice has been pooched by the city’s inept we can all go here, yay. From the unapproved AI data center to new high density development on Las Animas (no zoning, resource or environment impact studies done), our city counsel is corrupt to the hilt.