A $1 million seating plan for the skate park

Powder Springs’ proposed five-year work plan puts a $1 million estimate on terraced seating at the skate park, with spending divided between 2027 and 2028.⁠[1][2]

The City Council is scheduled to consider the broader 2027–2031 update on Monday, Nov. 16. The consent-agenda resolution calls for sending it to the Atlanta Regional Commission and the Department of Community Affairs—not awarding a seating construction contract.⁠[3]

The parks improvement schedule, revised Nov. 5, places the seating at Linear Park and assigns $500,000 to each of the first two years. The work plan identifies it as a skate-park project within Linear Park’s future phases. The parks schedule also calls for $75,000 in Thurman Springs Park signage in 2027.⁠[1][2]

The funding descriptions do not fully agree. The capital schedule assigns the seating’s entire $1 million cost to impact fees, while the broader work plan lists both SPLOST and impact fees. Those tables do not establish a single, consistent funding split.⁠[1][2]

For scale, the parks and recreation impact-fee account ended June 30 with about $919,681. It collected about $386,267 during fiscal 2026, according to the accompanying financial report. Those are fiscal-year-end figures, not a current cash balance.⁠[4]

The accompanying accomplishments report also records a project that did not survive its funding limits: a planned 12-foot concrete recreation trail running south from Brownsville Road through the floodplain was dropped for insufficient funding.⁠[5]

Monday’s council meeting starts at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 4483 Pineview Drive. Residents wishing to comment must sign up in person between 6:40 and 7 p.m.; the first 12 registrants receive five minutes each. The agenda provides no virtual citizen-comment option.⁠[3]