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Amy McMillan runs a tight ship.
As executive director of the Genesee County Parks and Recreation Commission, headquartered in Flint, Mich., she has watched property values plummet and the millage income that supports the parks decline as a result.
She has also watched use of the 11,000 acres of county parks increase. She knows that families are staying closer to home these days and that they are happily finding in the county parks an abundance of recreational opportunities--from playgrounds and picnic areas to fishing holes, disc golf, camping and ORV trails. At a time when city budgets are also strained and city pools and parks are being closed, the county parks have become a “first choice” and often an “only choice” for residents.
