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Parks staff detail Bronson Park upgrades, restroom timeline and river study; city previews $30M–$40M community-center options
Summary
Parks staff described a range of capital projects — Bronson Park playground and fence upgrades, planting two trees, an off-site-built restroom at Ethely Tracy Park with site work to start Jan. 15 and delivery by mid-February, Pine Street playground procurement and a Riverside Park kayak/boat-ramp study — and city staff previewed two community-center cost options (roughly $40 million and $30 million) and potential financing.
Parks staff on Nov. 12 briefed the Victoria City Parks and Recreation Commission on several capital-improvement projects and event plans, and city staff previewed funding options for a major community-center renovation.
Assistant Director Steve Gallagher invited residents and commissioners to a Bronson Park celebration the following morning and described a recent overhaul of the park: replacement and reorientation of playground equipment, a new swing set, a rubberized play surface replacing pea gravel, three musical-play features, restriped basketball courts and a new powder-coated chain-link fence with safety gating. "We added three musical features so that kids can play a xylophone or little bells and, little tambourines for…
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