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Consultants present leisure-services master plan; commissioners urged to prioritize parks, staffing

3193760 · May 6, 2025
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SPG Planners and Engineers presented an updated comprehensive plan for Madison County leisure services, recommending software implementation, parking changes at Cliff Mize Park and phased staffing increases tied to NRPA benchmarks; the Board asked staff to prioritize short-term fixes and prepare timelines.

Ben Prew, a planner with SPG Planners and Engineers, presented an updated comprehensive plan for Madison County leisure services at the Board of Commissioners’ May 5 work session. The plan covers recreation department operations, senior center improvements and concept sketches for park facilities; SPG recommended implementing RecDesk countywide and making targeted parking and engineering upgrades at Cliff Mize Park.

The plan’s authors urged the county to prioritize improvements and pursue multiyear phasing tied to funding opportunities. “Within each park facility, we have suggested maybe one to three years or a little bit longer term,” Prew said, describing…

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