A survey that should begin hitting Pauls Valley mailboxes this week will offer residents the opportunity to give their input on the future of the city’s parks and recreation facilities and programming.
The survey is part of a wider project to gather feedback from the Pauls Valley community as the city works to develop a long-range parks and recreation master plan.
When it is completed, the master plan will work as a blueprint of sorts, guiding the city’s development, expansion, maintenance and programing of its parks and recreation properties over the next decade or so.
“The goal is at the end of this whole process, we’ll have a working document that can help our community be the best that it can be when it comes to recreation,” Pauls Valley Parks and Recreation Director Jennifer Samford said.
The plan will encompass all of Pauls Valley’s parks and recreation properties, which currently includes nine parks, two lakes, two recreation or aquatic facilities, the golf course and the disc golf course.
Samford said each Pauls Valley household should receive a survey, which takes about 10-15 minutes to fill out. Surveys may also be completed online. Instructions for how to access the online version should be included in the mailers.
“Please take the time to fill them out and give us your opinions and mail them back, and encourage your friends, family and coworkers to complete the surveys, too,” Samford said.
“It will really give us a better idea, moving forward for the next 20 years, of how to improve our parks and recreation facilities for the community.”
The master plan project is funded in part by a $90,000 grant from the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET).
