The YMCA of the Kanawha Valley can again this year use Coonskin Park to offer summer day camp, the Kanwawha Parks and Recreation Commission decided Wednesday.
During its regular meeting, the board voted to allow the YMCA use the park. It also voted to allow YMCA staff to operate Coonskin's pool and tennis courts.
The board will all allow the YMCA to use the facility at no cost, county parks director Jeff Hutchinson said. He said the YMCA will bring in more than 100 kids per day, Monday through Friday, throughout the summer.
"It's good for the community, and that's what they're trying to do is help the kids," Hutchinson said after the meeting.
Last year, the YMCA ran a camp out of the park's tennis courts, he said.
This year, Hutchinson said, "They're going to use three of the big shelters in the upper park and do it on a larger scale."
A call to the YMCA was not immediately returned.
In other business, Hutchinson said a construction project associated with a new entrance to Coonskin Park is finished.
After a new bridge over the Elk River was built to connect the park to U.S. 119 near the Mink Shoals exit of Interstate 79, the West Virginia National Guard built an extension onto to the county's maintenance building to make up for storage buildings torn down in the construction process, Hutchinson said. The bridge opened in Fall 2015.
A fence was also installed in the maintenance area, he said.
Hutchinson said the work was finished Tuesday.
"That's the end of the whole thing dealing with the bridge," Hutchinson said.