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Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation outlines renovation plan and a November ballot measure to expand capacity
Summary
Dean Rommel, executive director of Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation, told Frederick trustees the district will ask voters in November to approve a property‑tax measure to fund a new aquatics facility in Central Park (Firestone) and about $12–$13 million in renovations to the current Frederick recreation center to relieve severe capacity constraints.
Dean Rommel, executive director of Carbon Valley Parks and Recreation, told the Town of Frederick Board of Trustees that the district is proposing a November ballot measure to build a new aquatics facility and an activity/field‑house near Central Park in Firestone and to renovate the existing Frederick recreation center.
Rommel said the district now operates three main facilities — a 55,000‑square‑foot recreation center in Frederick, a gymnastics center across the street and a community center in the former Firestone town hall — and that rapid population growth has pushed use well beyond capacity. "We're sitting at about 43,000 residents" in the Carbon Valley district, Rommel said, and the district recorded…
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