Eastern Iowa Parks and Recreation directors respond to recent vandalizations

ELY, Iowa (KCRG) – Over the past two weeks, Parks and Recreation departments in Japanese Iowa shared incidents and considerations over circumstances of vandalism on playground and different public areas.

One befell at Schulte Park in Ely.

On Monday, Could sixteenth a park goer reported flooding from a clogged rest room and sink within the rest room at Schulte Park. Parks and Recreation director Callie Stulz-O’Brien says every park is provided with safety cameras, so after reviewing the footage they discovered the three teenage boys accountable..

“We have now cameras in any respect of our metropolis amenities, very good cameras I might say. And being a small city, it’s fairly straightforward to determine folks when they’re concerned,” she advised TV-9.

She says the harm was a fast repair, and the lavatory was working once more throughout the day, however not all park vandalisms are a fast repair.

Riverside Park in Vinton was lit on fireplace on Could 14th inflicting $200,000 in damages.

Vinton Parks and Recreation Director Matt Boggess says they will repair it, however it would take so much longer to open it again up.

“So proper now if we wish to order stuff in, because of shortages, provide chain shortages, various things like that, the earliest that we’re going to get a playground in or get tools in is December,” Boggess mentioned in a video posted to the Parks and Rec Fb Web page.

Police in Vinton say they recognized two juveniles who they consider are related to the hearth, and prices are pending.

The three boys accountable for the vandalism right here in Ely are finishing group service till they repay the price of the harm.

Each departments say these incidents aren’t a mirrored image of their city or any city as it could occur to any public park.

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