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Parks millage update: $43M leveraged, Canal Park and MLK Lodge move toward construction
Summary
Parks staff told commissioners the city's evergreen parks millage has leveraged more than $43 million in public and private investment. Highlights: Canal Park will go to bid in spring; Oxford Trail and Silver/Plaster Creek planning funded; work on the Martin Luther King Jr. Park Lodge has broken ground with phased openings planned for 2025–2026.
City parks officials presented the annual parks millage update and a multi-year project pipeline that city staff and community partners say have leveraged more than $43 million in combined public and private funds.
Staff described the evergreen millage (reapproved in 2019) as providing roughly $7 million a year that supports capital projects, pool operations, park maintenance and recreation programming. That financing, plus an $11 million bond issuance and private grants, has been used to accelerate completed and…
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