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Committee approves $10,000 grant contract to install adult changing tables to support larger LPRF grant application
Summary
Williamson County’s Parks Committee approved Resolution 7-26-20 authorizing a $10,000 grant contract with the Tennessee Department of Disability and Aging to buy adult changing tables; staff said the installations improve the department's competitiveness for a larger LPRF grant.
The Williamson County Parks and Recreation Committee voted to approve Resolution 7-26-20, authorizing the mayor to enter a grant contract with the Tennessee Department of Disability and Aging and appropriating $10,000 in grant revenue to the department’s 2627 budget.
Gordon said the $10,000 award will fund two large adult changing tables—one for the men’s restroom and one for the women’s restroom—and that installing those fixtures would strengthen the department’s application for a larger LPRF grant. “One of the things that we needed to do in order for our grant to be more attractive … would be to have installed adult changing tables, which didn’t exist there before,” he said, describing the tables as large, weight-rated units similar to diaper-changing stations but sized for adults.
A committee member asked where the tables would be installed; Gordon said they would be placed in the respective men’s and women’s restrooms. The committee approved the measure by voice vote; the transcript records “Aye,” but does not provide a roll-call tally by name.
The staff presentation framed the $10,000 grant as a targeted investment intended to help secure approximately $1,000,000 in additional LPRF funding, which Gordon described as a “win-win” for the department.
