PARKS

Quarry’s Edge Park officially opened to the public with a ribbon cutting on April 23, and volunteers started working on the 6th mile of mountain bike trails Quarry's Edge Park volunteers also earned two awards in 2022 District Four and GRPA State Volunteers of the Year!

The parks team leveraged impact fee funds to help complete renovations at Dundee Lake, which included upgrades to the Don Shannon Memorial Disc Golf Course, a new pavilion overlooking the lake, additional and improved restrooms, and updates to the existing house to allow for rental space.

The Spalding County Aquatic Center is officially coming to life! The Board of Commissioners, parks and recreation leadership, the 2016 SPLOST committee, and other stakeholders broke ground on the facility during a July 19 celebration at the Lakes at Green Valley

The SPLOST-funded Aquatic Center is scheduled to open in late-2023, and at 17,500square feet, it will feature an eight-lane competition pool as well as a smaller pool for programming, including classes and therapeutic offerings for all Griffin's civil engineering firm Paragon Consulting Group provided planning services while Marietta, Gabased architects Lyman Davidson Dooley, Inc. designed the structure

Meja was the low bidder at $10,072,000 for construction on the Aquatic Center Since the bid came in more than the budgeted amount of $4,690,000, commissioners approved reallocating $6 million from the county’s American Rescue Plan Act funds to complete the project, which means no additional tax burden to county residents

Land clearing and the initial construction phase are underway now.