Roads around Reaney Park will be under construction this summer, said City Supervisor Mark Workman in a city council meeting Tuesday, March 11.

Targeted roads include Lentil Lane, Reaney Way, Gray Lane, and Morton Street.

“Those streets have been on my hit list for a long time,” Workman said.

Constructors will build splash pads around the swimming pool to reduce standing water, Workman said.

“That’s the centerpiece of our community,” said City Council member Eileen Macoll of Reaney Park. “It’s well-loved and it’s showing it.”

The pool will be closed for the summer of 2014 but the aquatic center and the park will remain open, Workman said.

“It will be really busy down in Reaney Park this summer, but I think the end results will be a nice facelift once it’s completed,” he said.

Summer concerts scheduled to take place in Reaney Park will be moved to a different location, said Recreation Superintendent Kurt Dahmen.

City council members also approved an ordinance that would make sex offenders permanently ineligible for a taxi license at the meeting.

The current Pullman taxi ordinance denies applicants a taxi license if the applicant has committed certain sex offenses in the past three years, said Gary Jenkins, Pullman Chief of Police.

Staff of a taxi corporation recommended the time requirement be eliminated on those offenses and applicants should be denied based on the conviction of a sex offense at any time.