The city of Urbana will receive more than $20,000 in state funding to make upgrades to Melvin Miller Park.

The grant is part of $2.8 million in NatureWorks grants approved by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to assist communities across Ohio develop and improve public access to outdoor recreation facilities.

Urbana officials will receive about $20,400 to replace fences around adult softball fields No. 1 and No. 2 at Melvin Miller Park, which were opened in the 1960s and early 1970s, said Parks and Recreation Superintendent Chris Stokes.

Theres holes in them, the poles are leaning and everything is curled up on the bottom. Theyre in bad shape, Stokes said.

NatureWorks will provide 75 percent of the money for the project. Urbana will pay the remaining 25 percent, or nearly $7,000, which will come out of the Capital Improvement Fund, Stokes said.

These grants will allow communities to increase green space, update playground equipment and picnic areas and spend time with their families, which helps improve the quality of life for everyone that calls our great state home, said ODNR Director James Zehringer in a press release.

Urbanas Melvin Miller Park is one of 80 community-based projects that will receive NatureWorks grant money.

The grants will support the acquisition of more than 23 acres of green space, the development or improvement of 21 playgrounds, 12 shelters and gazebos, seven park restrooms, two spray-splash pads, a skate park and dozens of other local improvement projects that will help make Ohios park infrastructure more enjoyable for all Ohioans, according to ODNR.

Stokes said officials hope to replace the fences in the spring.

Theyre quite old and in disrepair and overdue for having them replaced, Stokes said.

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