Quoted 8/12/2010 from The Daily Herald -Springfield TN.   Parks Director- Kevin Fischer and Mayor - Michael Dinwiddie.

“(Skate parks) have a bad rap,” Fischer said. “Those people aren’t in the recreation field so they don’t see it from my standpoint.”

Mayor Michael Dinwiddie said he wants to see the city finally build the park.

“I get requests for that from our young kids in town. That’s one of the things that they want and so I’m fully supportive of it,” he said.

However, if the park does eventually get built, Fischer believes it will be the city’s most popular recreational attraction.