Hollister council members are potentially moving forward on plans to expand skate park at Veterans Memorial Park five months after approving an expenditure for a BMX facility on the grounds.
Council members Monday will consider clarifying language in Hollister’s contract with the county – both entities oversee the park – to incorporate an expanded skate park.
Hollister council members in March approved spending $78,000 on obstacles and other amenities for a new BMX facility next to the current skate park on Memorial Drive. It came after BMX riders and other supporters made pleas to the parks and recreation commission and then council members for the addition.
Language in the revised contract bicycles in just one section in which it says riders of varying types of “skate activity” – including freestyle bicycles – are permitted there.
County supervisors, meanwhile, are set to consider a similar approval at their 9 a.m. Tuesday meeting at the County Administration Building, 481 Fourth St.
Clay Lee, who oversees the parks division, could not be reached immediately.
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