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Parks seeks senior center design funds, playground and pool repairs and more maintenance staff
Summary
Park staff asked council for $500,000 for senior center design work, repairs at community and pool facilities, replacement landscape equipment and three trucks, a Connex storage unit at West Homewood Athletic Complex, and additional full‑time maintenance staff.
Park staff presented a mix of capital and operating requests on Sept. 11 that cover a senior center design, repairs to gym floors and pool elements at the community center, bridge deck replacements, landscape equipment and additional maintenance staff.
A speaker identified as Bridal asked the council to budget $500,000 for design work at the senior center and to replace gym floors at the community center that have exceeded their life cycle. “They'll come in and basically strip it down all the way to the bare wood,” Bridal said of the planned floor work.
The parks presentation included replacement of worn bridge decking at the central pool, new pool shades, a remote pool vacuum, a dump trailer…
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