The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners approved the county’s five-year community parks and recreation plan at their Dec. 17 regular meeting after a public hearing.
The five-year plan outlines a new park operations and maintenance program, to be overseen by the parks and recreation commission. This program will be developed with county staff to “address immediate and long-term equipment, budgetary, and personnel needs for existing and proposed facilities,” and “implement the remaining incomplete elements of the park conceptual designs.”
Interim Administrator Richard Lewis clarified that this program wouldn’t require the county to hire new personnel, but it would involve the county’s new facilities manager and the usual part-time seasonal employees.
