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Dobbs Ferry outlines parks-and-rec priorities, plans Gold Park bathhouse and community center
Summary
Parks & Recreation superintendent Kendra Garrison presented department staffing, programs, revenue, and 2026–27 priorities — including design work for a new Gold Park pool bathhouse and community center — and trustees asked about program cost recovery during budget planning.
Kendra Garrison, superintendent of Parks & Recreation, gave trustees an overview of the department’s staffing, programs and near-term priorities, telling the board, “Our department includes 3 full time staff, myself, a recreation leader, a recreation assistant, and also a part part time senior advocate.”
Garrison outlined youth programs, day camps, after-school activities, sports leagues, adult offerings such as trivia nights and workshops, senior programming and the Gold Park Pool, and she listed special events that the department manages, including the food truck festival, summer concerts, Halloween Bash, downtown trick-or-treating, the tree lighting and the light parade.
On capital and program priorities for 2026–27, Garrison said the department plans to expand youth and adult programming, enhance aquatic offerings and “design and creation of the new Gold Park pool bathhouse and community center.” The presentation included a brief revenue breakdown to date.
Trustees pressed for fiscal detail. An unidentified trustee asked how revenue figures overlap with the cost of delivering programs and whether programs meet cost-recovery targets, noting, “the revenue numbers that that you put up are significant… do you have a ballpark there?” Garrison replied that “Almost all of our programs will either break even or make money with the exception of, like, our senior programming,” which she said operates at a modest deficit.
Why it matters: the parks-and-rec budget and proposed capital work, including the Gold Park bathhouse concept, will inform the village budget season and potential grant-seeking. Trustees agreed to circulate event dates and finalize any items requiring formal votes during the January meeting and the budget process.
Looking ahead: trustees asked staff to provide more detailed cost-recovery figures and to coordinate a single events calendar for 2026 that consolidates Wicker’s Creek, Berryfest and downtown activities.
