The Paxton Park District’s board of commissioners plans to decide in November whether to move forward with a proposed community garden at Coady Park, including whether the district might help fund the nearly $12,000 needed to install a water line for the garden.

The board heard last week from Ruth Ann Noble, a member of the Paxton United Methodist Church’s outreach committee, which proposed the community garden last year.

Noble said initial plans for the community garden include renting out 20 garden plots, each 30 by 17 feet in size, to individuals, families or organizations. The garden would be built east of the soon-to-be opened dog park.

One obstacle still in the way, however, is the source for the garden’s water supply, Noble said. Noble and her outreach committee estimate that the garden needs at least three accessible water faucets among the plots.

The outreach committee contacted plumber Joe Emberson of Emberson’s Quality Plumbing of Paxton to determine the cost to access the city’s water supply and to provide a water source and linkage to hydrants for the proposed garden.

In a written estimate, Emberson proposed the installation of 800 feet of 2-inch water line and 4-yard hydrants for the garden that would extend from a city water source on Fall Street — which is parallel to the west edge of Coady Park — and run along the north side of the park.

The estimated costs total $11,734, including $3,200 for digging, $6,534 for plumbing and $2,000 to the city of Paxton. Emberson told Noble the water line would be able to accommodate most of the future water needs related to other proposed activities at Coady Park, including the dog park.

“That price sounds big, but it would probably be adequate for most of the other plans,” Noble said.

The board’s vice president, Steve Sample, said following last week’s meeting that the idea for the garden was “still in the research phase” but would be discussed further in November.

“It looks like next month we’ll have it on the (meeting’s) agenda, and the board will vote on whether we want to pursue that,” Recreation Director Neal McKenry said.