SALISBURY – County leaders voted this week to approve $100,000 in funding for park planning at the West Metro Core property in Wicomico.
On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Council voted unanimously to amend the fiscal year 2022 capital budget and fiscal years 2022-2026 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) to include $100,000 for the development of a park master plan at the West Metro Core property on Levin Dashiell Road.
“The intent would be to put out an RFP for a master planner this fall …,” Recreation, Parks and Tourism Director Steve Miller told officials this week. “The typical planning process would be a six- to 12-month process.”
Earlier this year, Miller came before the county council seeking a Program Open Space (POS) land conversion from the West Metro Core property to the Connelly Mill property, a parcel of land the county purchased in 2019 for future recreational use.
The transfer, he explained at the time, would allow the county to develop Connelly Mill into a public recreation space using lease monies from the West Metro Core. While the county purchased the West Metro Core in 2009 with plans to develop a public sports complex, those plans never materialized and for the last 12 years the site has been leased to a local farmer, bringing in roughly $300,000 in income for the county.
Hey Joe- they just announced last night that the Folk-you Festival is going to STAY one more year. Unbelievable.
Jake Day’s vanity project continues to drain Wicomico county and Salisbury of funds…for what exactly? So the people who listen to NPR can smile as they step over homeless people near the LGBQ pride crosswarks at the library? So that liberal college professors can listen to Ethiopian folk music and feel superior to us poor stupid white people rednecks?
Yeah, Jake Day is the NPR Mayor- effete, out of touch, useless, smug, and willing to throw away your money for his vanity.
There is nothing that will improve Wicomico until the crime and trash are cleaned out. People are leaving as fast as they can, the economy is a wreck, infrastructure is a mess (don’t even get me started on the bike lanes), the housing marking is diving and the powers that be come up with this brain fart. Glad I moved away years ago – the whole area is a waste.