Status Update on Cohen Eastern Greenwich Civic Center Outdoor Pickleball Courts
The First Selectman presented his town Budget to the BET Budget Committee on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at Town Hall. The presentation was followed by the traditional public hearing where community members spoke out about projects and budget items they support.
GreenwichPickleball.com Editor Cathy Blood spoke on behalf of the Pickleball Community, (view Town Youtube clip here) as a follow-up to over 40 submitted public comment forms supporting the dedicated pickleball court project. We will publish links to the minutes and comment forms when available from the Town website.
Our goal was to show support for an interim funding request for court construction should the need arise after the project is re-bid in February 2025.
Due to the large volume of comments, the Parks and Recreation Department created an excellent one page court status update memo - which was distributed to the public at the meeting. Click on the link below to open a new window, or scroll down to read.
Highly recommended reading! This pretty much sums up where we’ve been since 2022, what Parks and Rec is doing, and what we can expect.
I would like to give a BIG shout out to the P&R Department for listening to players and finding a fix for the 5 foot sideline issue. The NEW plans have 7 foot sidelines.
The only remaining question is, will the redesigned project bids will come close to $375K? If not, an interim funding request may be in our future.
Parks and Recreation Public Document, distributed at the 1/28/25 First Selectman’s budget presentation to the BET Budget Committee, & public hearing night.
