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Metro Parks highlights security guards, warming centers and cultural-arts shifts in annual update
Summary
Stevon Mellems briefed the Metro Parks board on community recreation and cultural arts: security guards were added this year with credit to lifesaving incidents, warming shelters opened at three centers after recent storms, and cultural-arts programs moved or expanded following structural issues at West Park.
Stevon Mellems, presenting the annual update for wellness, community recreation and cultural arts, told the board that the department’s most impactful change this year was hiring security guards at community centers with dedicated funding highlighted on the mayor’s office Instagram.
Mellems cited two incidents handled by a contracted officer, identified as CPO Clemens: a Narcan…
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