The playground at Bill Inglis Park in Owen Sound is going to be taken out of service.
The city’s community services committee endorsed a staff recommendation at its meeting Wednesday to make some adjustments to several parks capital projects, including playgrounds that were scheduled for replacement this year.
Bill Inglis Park playground was one of them. But now the city will instead be decommissioning the 41-year-old playground at the park off 8th Avenue East, and using the dollars that were budgeted for its replacement for other playgrounds projects.
“It is landlocked. There’s only one way in,” Owen Sound’s Parks & Open Space Manager Eckhard Pastrik told committee members. “It is the oldest playground I’ve ever seen. And everything that I saw suggested to me that it hadn’t seen a day of use in many, many, many years.”
The city is moving ahead with new playgrounds at Comm-R-Ette and Owen Heights parks this year. Those playground replacements are expected to cost around $125,000 each.
Council still needs to formally approve the committee recommendation.
