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Parks staff brief board on new master plan process, consultant engagement

5776675 · September 9, 2025
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Parks Deputy Director Valerie Derrick told the advisory board the city selected consulting firm BerryDunn to create a 5–10 year parks and recreation master plan, including a facility assessment, statistically valid survey and stakeholder engagement. The contract cost was not specified at the meeting.

Valerie Derrick, deputy director of Parks and Recreation, updated the Parks, Arts, Recreation, and Culture Advisory Board on the department’s new master plan project at the Sept. 9 meeting, saying the city completed a procurement and selected consultant BerryDunn to lead the work.

Derrick said BerryDunn — a national consulting firm — conducted an on-site kickoff July 23–25 that included staff discovery sessions, interviews with city leadership and an unannounced public walk-through of parks and facilities. The firm is developing a public engagement strategy that will include a statistically valid survey,…

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