was sponsored by the city and the Brea Rotary Club as a celebration of the new center. Brea Arts Commissioner Ray Moore designed the 4-by-8-foot mural panels that decorate the construction site at Randolph Avenue and Madison Way.

Plans to install new playground equipment in several city parks has been stalled as officials work to comply with new state-mandated handicap access laws. Woodcrest, Tamarack, Junior High and Country Hills parks were slated to get the new equipment in February, but the laws requiring the city to make the area accessible to the handicapped has pushed back the installation date, said maintenance supervisor Pat McCarron. "We had to put everything on hold. . . .

A proposal to hire a landscape architect and a design artist for the proposed Brea CommunityCenter will go before the City Council today. The council will consider a staff recommendation to hire Meyer & Associates for landscaping design services and Richard Posner to do so-called conceptual designs for the center. In a report to the council, which is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m.

A major renovation of the outdoor basketball courts at Brea Junior High School, a project delayed by Orange County's 1994 bankruptcy filing, should be finished by December, city officials said this week. The seven full-size courts, at Lambert Road near Brea Boulevard, are being renovated with $200,000 in city money and county grants, recreation director Ret Wixted said. "We had the agreements approved, but the project was put on hold because of the bankruptcy," Wixted said.

The city's long-awaited community center,