Parks and Rec master plan survey to close soon

The last day to provide input in city’s Parks and Recreation Department’s master plan survey will be Monday.

Visit the department’s webpage at Juneau.org/parkrec to learn about the plan, take the survey and provide comments on the project.

The Parks and Recreation Department will continue to take comments submitted online after the survey closes; it will take comments through the end of 2017. But the survey will not reopen after Monday.

For more information, contact the department at 586-5226.

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