Water and Splash Parks

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Councilman Matt Schelenberg on a New Park

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Aug 31, 2016

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Amid the hot summer weather in Jacksonville?comes a cool new idea of public benefit: Splash Parks. Councilman Matt Schelenberg joins us on this edition of Comcast Newsmakers to discuss how this new project works and the steps needed to bring it to Jacksonville.

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