Litchfield Park District Building Nearly Complete; Restrooms Expected Soon

Article Summary: The Litchfield Park District board heard May 6 that a new building is nearly finished, with concrete expected to be poured the following day and restrooms possibly opening by the end of the following week, weather permitting.

Building Project Key Points:

The building is nearly complete; concrete was expected to be poured the day after the meeting.

Remaining work includes painting, installation of a brick façade and other unspecified items.

D & M Electric is to hook up the electricity once that work is finished.

Restrooms could open by the end of the following week, weather permitting. No cost figures appear in the record.

LITCHFIELD — The Litchfield Park District Board of Commissioners on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, was told that a district building is nearly complete and that its restrooms could be open to the public within roughly two weeks.

The update came under the Community Center committee report, chaired by Vice President Katie Cross, and appears on the agenda as the “Tardis Structure Update.” According to the minutes, the concrete was expected to be poured the day after the meeting. Tardis will then return to complete painting, install the brick façade and finish any other remaining work, after which D & M Electric will hook up the electricity.

“Weather permitting, we should be able to open the restrooms by the end of next week,” the minutes state, using the first-person voice in which the district’s committee reports are recorded.

The minutes record no motion or vote on the item, which was presented as an update.

Costs and Scope Absent From the Record

Neither the agenda nor the minutes attaches a dollar figure to the project. There is no contract amount, no change order, no funding source and no original completion date against which to measure the current schedule. The documents also do not state where the building is located, how large it is or what it will contain beyond the restrooms.

The reference to “Tardis” is not explained in either document. The agenda’s heading treats it as a structure; the narrative in the minutes describes it as an entity that will return to perform work. Because the record does not resolve that, the name is reported here as the documents use it, without characterizing what it refers to.

No supporting documents were attached to the agenda for this item.