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Parks staff preview needs assessment for Boulder rec centers; final report due late June or early July
Summary
City staff detailed findings from a yearlong needs assessment of Boulder’s three recreation centers and outlined next steps: design options for East Boulder, short-term repairs at South and North, and community conversations on unfunded needs tied to a citywide funding effort.
City of Boulder Parks and Recreation staff on a board meeting briefing said a draft needs assessment for the city’s three recreation centers will be finalized in late June or early July and used to shape short-term repairs and longer-term funding conversations.
Darren Wagner, senior landscape architect and project manager for the Future of Recreation Centers project, told the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board the assessment is intended to “inform two primary separate efforts” rather than to be a final plan. He said the study was scoped to evaluate how renovations to existing buildings could meet community needs and was not a feasibility study for a fourth, competitive aquatics facility: “This project was not scoped to as a feasibility study for that fourth facility.”
The assessment summarized how the three centers currently function and recorded community priorities. Staff said…
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