There are a number of projects that are being worked on this year at the Wasaga Beach Provincial Park.
They’re through a partnership between the park and the town.
The Committee of the Whole recommended to Council that they approve the list of projects that Park Superintendent John Fisher showed them.
The work this year would cost 78.5 thousand dollars.
Fisher says there are many things they want to accomplish this year, including a new playground for Beach Area 2, or Schoonertown, for a coast of 20 thousand dollars.
Another project is a weather station specifically for Wasaga Beach, which would be located at Beach Area 3. The cost of this would be about 5 thousand dollars.
Fisher says they are also looking at paving the bike trails in Beach Area 5, which would cost 20 thousand dollars.
He says they would also be expanding the boardwalk in Beach Area 1 or 2, for a cost of 5 thousand dollars.
Some of the projects completed last year through the partnership between the park and the town were a playground at Beach Area 5, repairs to the lighhouse on Nancy Island, and a new patrol boat for park staff.
Fisher says he is also looking at some more expensive projects through provincial funding.
He says some of them are repairs to the boat launch at Beach Area 1, and developing a Heritage Welcome Centre at Nancy Island, and a Nature Centre at the Blueberry trails facility.
Fisher says this would make the facility at Blueberry trails a year round facility.
He says the partnership between the town means that there is lots of discussion between the park and the town about the importance of each project.
Fisher says the town aproved 80 thousand dollars for park projects in their budget talks for this year, and now they have to look at where the funding goes.