The City of Hood River continues to move toward replacement of the Children’s Park play structure.  A public meeting last week updated where the City is in the process and what will happen next.   City Manager Steve Wheeler says the next step is to send out requests for proposals to companies who build play structures, with a likely outcome to allow quite a bit of input from the community into the process of what is built.  The City has budgeted $150,000 for the project, and they have asked the Hood River Valley Parks and Recreation District for systems development charges funds to help with the effort.  In addition, fundraising will be taking place to accumulate more dollars for the replacement.  Wheeler said the goal remains to have a new structure constructed in time for the summer of 2018.