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Freeport allocates funding for parks maintenance, community center lighting and new batting cages
Summary
Budget highlights include funding for a mobile maintenance trailer and HVAC training, continued carryover for Veterans Memorial projects, community-center lighting and new batting cages; council discussed limiting Christmas-decorations spend and prioritized the community center.
Staff told the council that the parks budget includes a $20,000 mobile trailer and HVAC certification training to let staff perform more maintenance in-house, continued carryover funding for the Veterans Memorial, and a placeholder for community-center lighting and associated Christmas decorations.
Councilmembers discussed limiting the annual additions to decorative lighting as pole space and costs rise, and staff said decking work at Marsh Landing and infield dirt for ballfields remain priorities. Staff also described plans for two new batting cages side-by-side at the existing location.
