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New parks and recreation director lays out priorities: staffing, playground upgrades and public programs
Summary
At their first meeting with the advisory board, the Parks and Recreation director (name not specified) outlined a plan to combine marina, senior services and parks operations into a new department, pursue playground accessibility upgrades, recruit staff, and pursue joint partnerships and public programs.
At their first official meeting with the Oak Harbor Parks & Recreation advisory board, the city’s newly installed Parks and Recreation director introduced themselves and described a broad workplan that includes staffing, playground upgrades, new programming and closer coordination with other city boards.
"This is my first time here with the parks board," the director said, outlining roughly 30 years of recreation experience and several large municipal projects they have led. The director said the new department will initially include marina operations, senior services and parks operations and that staff will…
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