The tennis courts at Franklin Park are resurfaced and open to the public thanks to the work of City of Yakima park maintenance staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis was a major undertaking and all the work was performed by park maintenance staff led by Park Maintenance Technician David Flory,\u201d said Parks & Recreation Manager Ken Wilkinson. \u201cThese courts were in very poor shape and we are pleased to have been able make these improvements so that the courts can once again be used.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tennis court resurfacing at Franklin Park was funded by $5,000 in donated materials and $8,000 in additional funds for materials from the City of Yakima Parks and Recreation budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHaving city staff do the work saved the parks budget a substantial amount in labor costs,\u201d said Wilkinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The City of Yakima Franklin Park is located at 2101 Tieton Drive. Click Franklin Park | Yakima Parks and Recreation<\/a> for more about Franklin Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click Yakima Parks and Recreation<\/a> for more about City of Yakima parks and recreation programs and facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tennis courts at Franklin Park are resurfaced and open to the public thanks to the work of City of Yakima park maintenance staff. \u201cThis was a major undertaking and all the work was performed by park maintenance staff led by Park Maintenance Technician David Flory,\u201d said Parks & Recreation Manager Ken Wilkinson. \u201cThese courts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12132,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions\/12132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}