HarryVardon

On February 4, 2026, commencing at 1pm at BRAF offices downtown there will be a stakeholder meeting .
Agenda:

1:00pm: Brainstorming with Stakeholder Focus Groups (50 mins each w/10 min break between)
Economic Development (1pm)
Maintenance, Environment, & Infrastructure (2pm)
Arts & Culture (3pm)
Adjacent Community Interests (4pm)
Recreational Interests (5pm)
6:00pm: Adjourn

Interestingly BREC spent $400,000 for a 10 year master plan for the park system in 2025 before the new commissioners were chosen via new legislation by the legislature.

Here's link regarding the Imagine your parks plan and expenditure that appeared in 225.

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The new commissioners voted $600,000 this year for a new Master Plan for Historic City Park Golf Course and City Brooks Community Park and the Lakes Project .

Friends of City Park Baton Rouge has spearheaded efforts to not only preserve the integrity of Historic City Park Golf Course, which had over 26,000 rounds of golf and approximately $440,000 revenue in 2024 (with 2025 projections to be higher) but also with the 100 year anniversary of the course in 2028 to advocate for BREC to invest in redoing (not patching) city park course but also investing in the existing BREC courses to make them destination courses attracting tourism and the accompanying economic and cultural benefits.

You can join Friends of City Park Baton Rouge for free to keep abreast of this ongoing concern at:

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Historic City Park Golf Course had 26,600 rounds played there last year and generated $440,000 in revenue. The move to combine all of City Park with the Lakes Project at a cost of $300,000 to BRAF to do a study is a step in the direction of destroying the golf course as it is which seems to me to be a complete abrogation of BREC's responsibility to maintain and manage recreation for the Parish by introducing BRAF as a first step to obtain a tailored study to achieve a conservancy used to destroy the first municipal golf course in Louisiana and the first golf course in the United States to be admitted to the National Register of Historic Places. Urge your representatives to VOTE NO to this proposed collaborative endeavor agreement.

Bendelow you're right. Here's the link from BREC

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Here's a link for a BREC survey now being conducted that provides space at the end to tell BREC directly what you think and want at Historic City Park Golf course.

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