Community-Built Playgrounds Popular Solution to Budget Constraints

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In April, the Jefferson Parish Parks and Recreation Department in Metarie, La., set to work removing playground equipment that had sat, damaged and unusable, at Waggaman's Thomas Jefferson Park for years.

In April, the Jefferson Parish Parks and Recreation Department in Metarie, La., set to work removing playground equipment that had sat, damaged and unusable, at Waggaman's Thomas Jefferson Park for years. Residents of the unincorporated community on the west bank of the Mississippi, meanwhile, waited excitedly for a new structure to be erected. Two months later, however, the department announced that there was no money in the budget for new playground equipment.

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