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Residents push for Southwest Augusta community center as commissioners debate parks and water-park financing
Summary
Parks & Rec staff outlined $79 million in quality-of-life requests including revitalizations and May Park funding; residents urged retaining a $10 million request for a new Southwest Augusta community center and staff and commissioners debated reallocating May Park seed funds into facility revitalization.
Parks & Recreation Director Williams presented line items totaling about $79,039,000 for facility revitalizations, park improvements and programming. The packet includes additional money for May Park (a $5,000,000 allocation) and a prior $5,000,000 seed contribution for a South Augusta Waterpark. Williams said some line items were reduced from initial requests and that a phased approach will be necessary because the current funding will…
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