Every improvement since 2023 has been paid for by a grant, a match, or a neighbor. Here is what the next dollars go to, in the order they are needed.
Figures are working estimates from the plan, not quotes. Pick one on the form or leave it to the greatest need.
Emerald ash borer took sixteen trees. Sixteen replacements, planted and staked, with three summers of watering. The shelters were the stopgap; trees are the fix.
About $400 a treeThe building has a step. An approved access ramp brings it into ADA compliance so every reunion can get inside. First item in the phased plan.
Design and build, low five figuresFrom the lot to the depot and to each shelter, wide enough for a wheelchair and a stroller to pass.
Per linear foot; matched by grantsTwo-tenths of a mile around the park, paved, lit at the corners. The most-requested item in the 2024 survey.
The largest single line; grant-dependentADA improvements and a couple of new pieces so children of every ability can play together.
$3,000 to $15,000 per pieceOn the flat ground north of the playground. Courts, nets, fencing.
Mid five figures for the pairPaint, the kitchen corner, the furnace, forty-six chairs that wear out. The Depot Park fund covers the building year to year. Farmers market vendors and renters keep it alive; so can you.
Any amount, any timeNothing is charged online. Tell us what you'd like to give and toward what, and you get a note back within the day with the simplest way to give: a check to the Depot Park fund, cash at the depot on any event day, or an in-kind gift of trees, labor or materials.