Future renovations at John C. Memorial Park (aka “City Park”) took another step forward last week after Page City Council approved $565,000 to put toward major design and construction work this upcoming budget year.
Alongside an additional $125,000 to replace playground equipment at Children’s Park, the moves come as part of the continuation of a citywide park master plan approved in November 2016.  
Community Development Director Kimberly Johnson and the Page Parks and Recreation Advisory Board have been the primary actors in implementing the goals outlined in the plan. While the going has been somewhat slow until the announcement of Golliard Park’s facelift last month, the money put toward City Park will mark the first major step in its own renovation.  
Regarding City Park, the board has stated they would first like to prioritize designs for a skate park, parking lot and a pedestrian path/circulation system. With the budgeted money, plans would move from the conceptual stage, into the design phase where actual work can begin, Johnson noted.

The current conceptual blueprints for City Park were concocted through Planet Communities PLLC, a Phoenix-based community development firm.
Many of the ideas at City Park, which include a splash pad and staging area, were crowd sourced through Page community members.
While no official bidding process has begun, $65,000 of the budgeted money is earmarked for “design,” with the remaining $500,000 for construction.
Johnson noted that the design phase won’t be a one-and-done deal. Instead, more broad and largescale projects, like a skatepark and path system, would be prioritized to essentially “build around” in the years following.
Councilman Dennis “Dugan” Warner was a proponent of the more slow burn approach, saying, “[City Park] is not a bad park, it’s just not fully developed — unlike a raw piece of undeveloped ground. We’ve got a workable park here to build up from.
A phase-in plan will allow the city to execute buildable plans for the first phase of development... Each year, we can see a major component of that park finished.”