Summer activities will go on as usual this summer in Jackson, Mississippi, with no changes even after the City Council dissolved the Parks and Recreation Department to save money and contribute toward a balanced budget. The City is not laying off any employees or cancelling any park programming.
Instead, maintenance duties for the parks shifted to the Jackson Public Works Department and recreational program administration to Jackson’s Department of Human and Cultural Services.
The decision to dissolve the Parks and Recreation Department meant Jackson Public Works gained 24 new employees. Jackson Public Works Director Lorenzo Anderson told the Mississippi Free Press that his department is “working out the kinks” in an interview on May 22…