At the start of this week, the Terrace City Council held it’s bi-weekly Meeting and one of the topics that was pointed to as being potentially of interest to residents by the City before the meeting took place was a budget amendment involving Tetrault Park.
In a presentation from Terrace’s Director of Parks, Recreation & Culture, Tara Irwin, Council was asked to approve a $30,000 budget increase for phase one of a Revitalization Project at Tetrault Park with it also being proposed that the funds come out of the Terrace Community Forest Reserve and that their 2025 budget gets amended accordingly.
Both Mayor Sean Bujtas and Councillor Sarah Zimmerman openly expressed excitement at the idea of this project getting that kind of financial boost.
“I think this is great, I like to see more add for the youth in the community so I think this is reasonable and I look forward to seeing this work get done if we proceed with this” - Terrace Mayor Sean Bujtas
“I’m just super happy to see this happening, my kids go to the School at the end of the bike park in Tetrault Park there and it is a really well used area and the skills park in particular is long overdue for a face lift so I’m really excited to see the work that’s happening there.” - Terrace Councillor Sarah Zimmerman
Ultimately, the rest of Council agreed with them to the point that the proposal was passed.
The budget will now increase to $150,000 and Tara Irwin also described what additions will be made to the park in the project.
“So the first phase would specifically just look at the bike skills park, as we’ve worked through the detailed site design with the consultant and contractor that we’ve hired, we’ve identified a couple of additional components that we really feel would be beneficial to include as part of phase one and realize some efficiencies so if you are able to scroll down through about 30 pages, I’d like to just highlight quickly that would be the addition of a tot-loop, this would be just an asphalt loop and that would meet the needs of the youngest riders or scooter users in the community, it’s a little bit hard for learning bike skills on even really well compacted gravel and then also the addition of a one additional jump line, this is meant to be a bike skills progression park focused on bringing in families and young and new riders but what we’ve learned as we’ve worked with the consultant and do a little bit more research is that in order to keep riders interested as they progress, you really do need the more advanced lines.” - City of Terrace Director of Parks, Recreation and Culture Tara Irwin
The goal is for the project to be finished sometime during the 2025 construction season.