Satterfield Park Renovations

Description

The Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County (ACCUG) is a unified city/county government located in the northeast section of the state of Georgia and is approximately sixty (60) miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia.  The Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County (the government’s official name) was formed in 1991 by a referendum which required the combining of The City of Athens and Clarke County.  ACCUG serves an area population of approximately 100,000 with annual growth projected at 1% per year.  ACCUG provides a multitude of local and state-funded services, which includes, but is not limited to, Public Safety, Utility, Courts, Corrections, Tax and Fire Services.  ACCUG employs approximately 1,900 people. Named in honor of Dr. Wayne Satterfield, a founding member of the Little League program in Athens, Satterfield Park offers a variety of organized sports and fields for practice, match play, and tournaments.This 13-acre park features:2 Youth Baseball Fields2 Junior Baseball Fields1 Youth Softball FieldBatting CagesConcession StandMulti-use Field3 Tennis / Pickleball Courts with lightingPlaygroundPicnic Area One of the baseball fields has been used as a makeshift youth football field.  This project will convert that baseball field into a full-time youth football field, and add amenities such as bleachers and scorer stand and expand the field’s storage capacity for team and field equipment. The project will also include parking lot demolitions and asphalt repaving and restriping, installing new trees and park amenities, directional sign installation, stormwater facility improvements, field irrigation.