The trees won’t be the only thing bursting forth in color at Library Park when spring rolls around.

Five murals commissioned by the Manteca Mural Society will make their debut gracing a lighted wall dubbed “The Mural Walk” as the crowning touch to the Library Park expansion and renovation project.

When finished, six of the society’s 15 murals will be located in and around Library Park. The other mural is “Manteca Snow” depicting the almond blossom season that’s on a building directly across Manteca Avenue from Library Park. A seventh mural on the side of the Library Park restrooms was painted by youngsters during the Manteca Junior Women’s Art in the Park project.

The murals are being painted off site on weather-resistant poly-canvas. When completed they will be installed on the walls.

The five murals are:

“Baseball” by Dave Gordon. The mural will show a championship women’s team playing with a men’s team looking on. The stands will be packed with spectators.

•“The Yokuts Indians” by Terri Pasquini. The mural will show a family of Native Americans whose ancestral lands are in and around Manteca gathered around the evening campfire listening to the story of creation.

•“The Pioneers” by Jessie Marinas. The mural depicts the hard struggle to provide for families that was faced by farmers who settled the Manteca area before irrigation was developed.

•“Agriculture” by Colleen Mitchell-Veyna. The mural portrays the bountiful harvests once Manteca farming came into its own with irrigation.

•“Industry” by Brian Romagnoli. The mural will depict images of industry from Manteca.

The baseball mural will be 105 feet long. The other four murals will be 32 feet wide by 8 feet high.

The City Council on Tuesday is expected to enter into a mural site agreement with the Manteca Mural Society to create and maintain the murals including the repair of any vandalism. City staff along with a council committee have reviewed and approved the murals for appropriate content.

The city will pay the society $59,950 to cover the cost of the artists’ work and materials plus ongoing maintenance.

The money will come from development agreement fees - the so-called bonus bucks paid by developers to assure sewer allocation certainty for housing.

The bonus bucks accounted for $548,180 of the funding that was cobbled together for the park expansion project. The city only spent $276,361 of the bonus bucks leaving ample money to cover the murals that were factored into the original cost estimate. No general fund money was used for the park project that has covered several years representing nearly a $2 million investment.

 When completed this spring, the park murals will increase the number of downtown area murals commissioned by the Manteca Mural Society by 50 percent bringing the overall number to 15.