Eureka’s 20/30 Park Awarded $6.4 Million for Park Improvements
This is a press release from the City of Eureka:
California State Parks has awarded the City of Eureka’s 20/30 Park with $6,393,200 for park improvements. California State Parks received 478 applications requesting $2.3 billion in funding. With only $254.9 million available, only 62 projects were funded, making Eureka very fortunate to receive this competitive grant. In 2018, California voters passed Prop 68, which directed $254.9 million to State Parks for competitive grants to create new parks and enhance recreational opportunities for all Californians. This is the state’s largest investment in grant funding history targeted for underserved communities and the City of Eureka is excited to announce major improvements planned due to this generous funding opportunity.
Planned park improvements are based on a robust community engagement process where community members shared concerns regarding safety, access, walkability, recreational amendments, and inclusion.
The 20/30 park project reflects major renovation plans including: construction of a new volleyball court, basketball/roller hockey court, pickleball/tennis court, open space field, inclusive playground for ages 0 – 5, inclusive playground for ages 5 – 12, fitness stations, picnic area, ADA multi-use path, restroom building, concessions/storage building, 3 parking lots, with landscaping and lighting throughout the park. In addition, the Jacob-Haney ballfield will have all of the bleachers, scorer’s table, dugouts, and drainage renovated along with new automated irrigation, and parking improvements. The attached conceptual design is a direct result of community feedback and engagement.
Construction is tentatively slated to begin Spring 2021 and should be finished by Fall 2021.
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Fix the fucking roads please . I know this money comes from a different fund but maybe we could put in some more effort to get some grants for road repair . Sohum is a mess.
Bums will fill that park up in no time
In my part of Eureka, PG&E has made a mess of the streets over a few years. thousands of little bad patches
They should be required to repave edge to edge.
And meanwhile, Highland Park a few blocks away has no bathrooms, No working water fountains, 1 broken picnic table, walkways with giant humps in them from trees cut down a few years ago,( 5 large pines cut down ‘ to fix the walkways’ which never happened), walls around the kids play area of crumbling concrete and exposed sharp rusty rebar, cracked and unusable tennis courts, a locked baseball field with pieces of metal fence falling off and almost hitting people, a wood chip filled play area with needles it in,( but the city just dealt with that by pouring more chips over the needles), and homeless sleeping in it every night…the Parks dept in Eureka really should have an overall plan for ongoing maintenance for ALL the parks in the city, not a hit or miss ” hope we get a grant” system like they use now….
And with 6 MILLION dollars, you’d think they could fix at least 6 eureka parks. What the hell are they doing, lining the paths with gold pebbles. Jumpin Jehosephat!
6 MILLION dollars to put in new swingsets and lay some cement slabs for bball courts?
Thats a lot of administrative overhead. I really want to see a line item budget in this bs
I’m so happy about this! I live a block from there and currently the structures there are so sketchy I’m a bit scared when my kids are on them.
Just be a better bum hang out .
If the parks where you live are that bad, quit you’re bitching and form a neighborhood clean and restore party. You want the druggies gone? Do something about it. So- some privileged neighborhood got the money, dont be so pathetic and do something for your own children. That hand you’re holding up for the hand out, put a dam tool in it and take back you’re park
5 million in wasted wages for slow work and 1 million in the actual park.