Santa Maria Rec and Parks Department: Crews revamp one of city’s most heavily used parks

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Crews are hard at work at one of the most popular parks in Santa Maria.

"We’re working on the basketball court … it’s kind of the last piece of the different projects we’ve been doing here," said assistant director Brett Fulgoni at the Santa Maria Rec and Parks Department.

The Santa Maria Rec and Parks Department is renovating Oakley park.

Department Managers say people like this park, especially with its two baseball fields, a multi use sports field, playground, walking trails, and basketball court. 

"We have a lot of use at this park … it’s a particularly busy park and over the years it has continued to be used heavily," said Fulgoni.

Managers said the park hasn't been renovated in more than half a decade, and it was time to fix it up.

"I’ll put in the coat for resurfacing… and then the second one is color … and the third one is going to be color again and then we start striping," said crew worker Jose Garcia at Shoreline Concrete.

In addition to making landscape improvements, crews are also repainting the restrooms, score keeping booths and basketball courts.

"Kids are playing out here all the time on these basketball courts … it is extremely valuable to the community … it’s nice to have a fresh look at the park … … My hope is the community can see a nice freshened park and continue to enjoy it fully," said Fulgoni.

Renovations are expected to be finished by the end of this week.