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Shorewood staff outline Parks Master Plan schedule; commission recommends stakeholder groups and on‑the‑ground survey cards
Summary
City staff told the Park Commission Bolton & Menk completed a consultant tour and are preparing an inventory and analysis; the commission suggested stakeholder groups for listening sessions and agreed to a short QR-code card to drive resident responses to a survey open through early August.
Parks and Recreation Director Czech updated the Shorewood Park Commission on June 24 on progress for the Parks Master Plan. He said consultants from Bolton & Menk conducted a park tour with city staff and commissioners on June 2 and that the consultant team is compiling an inventory and analysis for review in July.
Czech said the next phase focuses on community engagement: a resident survey is live but not yet promoted while the City website is finalized, and the survey will remain open through early August. He said Bolton & Menk will engage park users during the July 17 Concert in the Park and that the City will hold stakeholder listening sessions in late July or early August to gather input from groups already active in the park system.
Commissioners proposed potential stakeholder invitees and outreach tactics. Suggestions included Freeman Park volunteers involved in buckthorn removal, Mr. Babcock (with ties to Freeman and Manor Parks), community gardeners and monument adopters, former Park Commissioners, athletic associations (with discussion of grouping versus separate sessions), seniors, teenagers, families with young children, PTO organizations and the pickleball community. The Commission discussed using two sessions for athletic associations and using a short, targeted questionnaire for specific groups.
There was a consensus to direct staff to develop a smaller three-question card with a QR code linking to the full survey for commissioners and staff to hand out at parks. Czech said he would begin outreach to the suggested groups and provide an update at the Commission’s next meeting.
No formal vote was recorded; the update was informational and tied to planned public engagement for the master plan.
