The Moving Platteville Outdoors Rountree Trail Project is $24,000 away from the $1.676 million needed for the Rountree Branch trail project.

The Platteville Common Council Tuesday night voted to allot an additional $85,000 to the project — $23,000 from the Robert and Marian Graham Community Fund, and $62,000 from funds originally intended for Municipal Building improvements this year — in addition to using city park improvement fees as a contingency fund in addition to the city'w 

Rule Construction of Dodgeville will start tree-trimming the week of Aug. 17, followed by grading. Fundraising needs to be finished by Saturday to have the fully finished trail as planned.

To donate, mail checks with “MPO” in the memo line to Platteville Community Arboretum, P.O. Box 302, Platteville, WI 53818.