Parks staff mark one year caring for Le Jeu Memorial Gardens ahead of Oct. 23 anniversary

City parks staff said they are marking one year of maintaining Le Jeu Memorial Gardens and are preparing the site for an Oct. 23 anniversary event.

"It's actually been a year now that we've been doing that," said McClure, the committee member who introduced the report. He credited the parks crew and the liaison at the gardens for positive feedback and asked Jason to summarize operational work underway. Jason said crews have focused on tree work — removing dead wood and replacing underperforming specimens with larger trees — and on routine maintenance to handle higher visitor counts associated with the museum and memorial features.

Committee members discussed logistics for the upcoming ceremony; no formal votes were taken on the agenda item. The presentation emphasized upkeep, pruning schedules and the goal of improving site plantings in time for the anniversary.