Virginia Colony Park to Be Spared Closure
The City Council will withdraw money from budget reserves to keep the city’s smallest park open at least until June.
Those funds will pay for Virginia Colony Park’s $10,300 maintenance costs--watering, landscaping and other upkeep.
In a meeting earlier this month, the council rejected a staff recommendation to close the 1-acre park in light of a looming deficit estimated at $600,000 in fiscal 1999-00.
Instead, the council asked the city to explore other cost-cutting options, such as reducing services.
Virginia Colony would have become the second park the city shut down this year. Before passing the 1998-99 budget at the end of June, the council closed Monte Vista Park. There are no plans to reopen that park, said Mary Lindley, the city’s director of community services.
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