Title
Update; FY2016-2017 Existing Park Improvements
Requested Action
Project Update
Recommendation
Project Update
Description/History
Each year staff compiles a list of recommended improvements for the existing parks in the City’s park system.
September 2016- The MPFDC approved $250,000 for existing park improvements in the FY 2016-2017 budget. The proposed list for park improvements includes park monument signage at Michael L. Skinner Sports Complex and McKnight Park East, playground improvements at Donald Barg Park and Katherine Rose Memorial Park, replacing countertops and adding adjustable basketball goals at the Mansfield Activities Center, providing electricity to the back maintenance shop and pond at Oliver Nature Park, providing a concrete slab for batting cages at McKnight Park East, adding a rock façade around the Magnolia Service Center, providing supplemental funding for construction of a new restroom building at Skinner Sports Complex, and replacing various grills, benches, picnic tables and bleachers throughout the park system.
October - Hold overs from the FY 2015-2016 year are under way and being completed, including the 10 fabric shade structures at Chandler football fields and concrete at the Skinner Sports Complex. The new projects are in the process of being quoted and/or designed.
November - The concrete drive to the baseball storage building is complete at the Skinner Sports Complex. The installation of the shade structures at the football fields at Clayton Chandler Park is also complete. The FY 16-17 items are in design for installation in the winter and spring of 2017.
January 2017 - Design is underway for additional swing set bays at Donald Barg Park and Katherine Rose Memorial Park with construction anticipated in late March. Design has started for the renovation of Woodland Estates Park on Killian Drive. Design is underway for the new James McKnight Park East entryway sign with construction anticipated to start in Febr...
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