WANTED

Instructors/Umpires/Scorekeepers wanted for recreational activities with the Parks and Recreation Department.  Please register to provide these services by contacting Ben Hamrick, Business Manager, at 478-751-9286.  Thanks for your interest in doing business with the Parks and Recreation Department.

Macon's Parks and Recreation Department provides comprehensive programs and scheduling of services at community parks, recreation centers, and swimming pools. It also provides a comprehensive program for special populations and senior citizens.

DEPARTMENT FUNCTIONS

The Grounds and Facilities Division of Parks and Recreation, is responsible for maintaining over 750 acres of landscaping and beautification throughout the City of Macon. The areas include various park sites; from small neighborhood parks to Central City Park, the eight recreation centers, the Senior Citizens Center, the two tennis centers, City Hall, downtown Macon, Booker T. Washington Community Center, various traffic islands and rights-of-way, four city cemeteries, and additional areas that we are asked to help landscape and maintain each year. We maintain a full-service greenhouse where we grow the majority of all the plants, flowers, and shrubs used around the city. Our duties include but are not limited to, mowing, trimming, weeding, pruning, and fertilizing all parks and beautification areas that we maintain. We plant our flower beds and park landscaping highlights once in the spring for the summer and once in the fall for the winter. We constantly work these areas to keep them beautiful. We have rose beds that require constant attention. We have two prison details that help with mowing and trimming downtown.

CITIZEN SURVEY

The Parks and Recreation Department is conducting a survey of citizens in order to determine how we can better serve you. Your responses are confidential. Please take a momement to complete the survey and return it to any of the recreation centers, City Hall, email to ben.hamrick@macon.ga.us, or mail to:

Macon - Bibb County Parks and Recreation Department
Survey Response
P.O. Box 247
Macon, GA 31201

Please fill out the citizen's survey.

Note: In order to return this survey via email, right-click the link and save the Word Document in the folder of your choosing on your computer. Open the survey from this location, and fill it out. When finished, save the document. In your email to Parks and Recreation, include this saved document as an attachment.