Our Downey City Park Project

 

Downey, Idaho is looking to improve our community by getting new playground equipment for our city park. We are seeking help in these efforts. As you may know Downey is wonderful place to raise children. Our current population sits at just over 600, with approximately 150-200 of these being children. We are looking for a safe and enjoyable place for these children and their parents to spend their time.

I have spoken with the City of Downey and they would be willing to provide all of the labor and equipment needed for the installation of the new playground equipment. However there is no room in the current city budget to purchase the new playground equipment. For this reason I am reaching out to you in hope you may be able to assist us with this. The approximate cost to purchase the new playground equipment is $25,000. As you can see we need a lot of help to reach this goal so any help is appreciated.

Downey is an amazing community filled with wonderful people. Families move to Downey because it’s a safe area and they enjoy the small town feel. We try our best to do what we can for our community, although sometimes it’s not an easy task. We have a lot of hard working young families that do their best to provide for themselves and their children, however most people are struggling like the rest of the country at this time to make ends meet. It is hard to ask people like this for money when they usually have to give all they have just to stay afloat. There are a few businesses in town and they provide all they can when fundraisers come around but there again they are to struggling to due to the current economic climate. We do the best we can to generate funds for what we need but a task of this size is a tall mountain to climb these days. Your funding would allow us to speed up this project considerably.  

Our city park is the epicenter of our community. It is host to family reunions, baseball games, softball games, community events and celebrations along with the town’s annual Easter egg hunt and our largest event, the South Bannock County Fair. There is a large variety of people that use our park for these different events but they always seem to leave dissatisfied with the playground equipment we currently have. I personally know of many parents who do not feel comfortable with their children on the current playground equipment. In the hot summer months the one large metal slide we have gets so hot that many children get burned while trying to play.  When the playground is busy, children of all ages seem to make their way to the merry-go-round. Most of the time this ends with the younger children being stuck on the merry-go-round with the older children, resulting in a lot of scraped knees and bruised elbows.

               By receiving this funding you would help make our city park a safer and more enjoyable place for families to spend time together for years to come. This could help us get this project accomplished in months rather than years. Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.