Parks Department provides more information on $95k request, including possible playgrounds repairs and replacements…

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At last night's county council meeting, Parks Department superintendent Larry Shickles gave some more information about the $95,000 request for pickleball and more at Buffalo Trace.

If you have been following this story, we highly recommend you watch his presentation starting at 3:20 in the meeting video:

Click here and skip to 3:20 in the meeting video for details

At minute marks 8:00 and 20:00, he addresses the future of playground repairs and replacements including projects at Gresham Park, Buffalo Trace, and a new plan for Hayswood Park which will be coming forward to the council in July. Shickles stated that new playgrounds were in the planning stages but "then covid came along." Shickles stated that it "made no sense to be spending money until you knew exactly what you had."

Shickles stated that the Parks Department has had playground parts on order since "November, some in February...that's to repair existing equipment that we have. In some cases we've had to remove parts of playground equipment because we can't get those pieces and most of our playground equipment, at least the larger gym sets, are old enough that in many cases we can't buy replacement parts."

In terms of a timeline for Buffalo Trace, Shickles stated "the goal right now is to try to have the pickleball courts done by September and the playgrounds would be done relatively quick pending parts."

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