MENDOCINO Co., 7/10/24 – Round Valley is one step closer to building a skatepark after the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to begin the process of investigating options to transfer county-owned land near the Covelo Airport to the Round Valley Lions Club, which maintains Covelo Community Park.
It’s the first part of a dream finally coming to fruition since the community started advocating in 2022 to provide local youth a place to call their own. “It felt like we were finally being seen by the whole county,” says Eileen Russell, media coordinator for the project, on the proposal finally being brought to the board. “We’ve been working towards many different checkpoints throughout this project, from getting a fiscal sponsor, getting the community on board, getting a skatepark designer, getting funds and grants, and getting land. It felt like we were in the beginning stages of the project for a while, and now we’re finally getting into the middle.”
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