Parks and Recreation and Hoover Met outline maintenance, safety and revenue projects including Findlay Center floor reseal and stadium field work

Parks and Recreation staff summarized operating and capital requests for the department’s 33 parks and major facilities, including Aldridge Gardens, the Hoover Randall House, the recreation center and the Hoover Met complex. Staff emphasized the department’s service scale—about 3 million annual park visitors, approximately 7,000 active recreation center members and 1,800 active senior center members—and said the requests aim to maintain assets, improve safety and support revenue generation.

Operating requests included modest percentage increases for Aldridge Gardens and other program accounts (line‑item increases cited for supplies, cleaning and temporary employees), a $10,896 CPI adjustment to a contract with SFM, and an added request for quarterly deep cleaning of park restrooms. One small personnel request sought to upgrade an open administrative…