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Parks and Recreation Department
24428 Eshelman Ave
310-326-0140

The Parks and Recreation Department comprises Parks and Recreation Administration, Recreation Services, Buildings and Grounds Maintenance, and the Railroad Museum. Click here for a calendar of community events and activities.

Parks and Recreation Administration coordinates and directs Recreation Services, Buildings and Grounds Maintenance, and the Railroad Museum, assesses the needs of the residents of Lomita to ensure that they are adequately receiving the recreation programs they need, maintains all City facilities at the highest level of safety and cleanliness possible, and administers the City budget and all Park Grant funds available. Parks and Recreation Administration's key objectives are to:

  • Develop a realistic 5 year master plan by December, 1998.
  • Develop a self-sustaining account for the Recreation Department to be completed for the 1998-1999 budget.
  • Apply for and acquire the funds allocated to the City of Lomita in the Safe Neighborhood Park Act of 1996 to be completed by November, 1998.
  • Upgrade the ball field lighting system before next year's softball season.
  • Adjust all fees and rental charges by January, 1999.
  • Upgrade the museum heating system as par of the energy conservation program.
  • Investigate the purchase of the L.A. County property next to Lomita Park for expansion of the park.

Recreation Services provides complete, diversified, and affordable recreational programs that meet the needs of our residents and fill their leisure hours, conducts special events, field trips, youth sports, adult sports, preschool, and contracts classes. Recreation Services also supervises the parks and provides programs that are geared toward the entire family and a variety of programs for senior citizens. The Recreation Department's key objectives are to:

  • Develop a program for part-time employee advancement/promotions.
  • Hire a team of contractors to complete an estimate for backing up the softball diamond.
  • Computerize our registration system or investigate what it would take to do so. Buy computers for the department.
  • Resurface the slab area to include basketball lines or paint key.
  • Add plastic vinyl over the dug out for protection from the sun during the summer months, shielding the children from excessive heat.
  • Develop a new accounting system for all programs that generate revenue by September, 1999.
  • Expand existing recreation programs and services by July, 1999.

Building and Grounds Maintenance maintains all City parks, the Railroad Museum, City buildings, landscaped areas, tennis courts, softball fields, gymnasium, Community Building, Stephenson Center, playground equipment, picnic shelter, and City Hall complex. Building and Grounds Maintenance keeps all facilities clean, graffiti free, in safe operating condition and accessible to the public, and monitors and maintains all irrigation systems to conserve water. Building and Grounds Maintenance's key objectives are to:

  • Improve the picnic areas at the Museum annex, Veteran's Park, and Metro Park by June.
  • Improve the looks of the entrance to Lomita Park by removing the old, broken railroad ties around planters by October.
  • Improve the irrigation systems in the parks by replaicing old sprinklers with more efficient ones to conserve water by next Summer.
  • Improve the landscaping around the tennis courts to provide more sunlight.
  • Service the Landscape Maintenance District, including bike path.