Mary Moore Searight Park Mary Moore Searight Metropolitan Park is located in Southwest Austin.[/caption]

The city of Austin is working to complete its updated Parks and Recreation Department Strategic Plan for 2017-21.

Residents can comment on the plan online by Sept. 16. They can view the draft document and SpeakUp Austin discussion and provide their comments about the proposed mission and goals.

The Austin Parks and Recreation Department has been working for the past year on a strategic planning process to establish its vision, mission, values and goals for city parks, PARD spokesperson Shelley Parks said. She explained this is different from the city's parks long-range plan.

“The strategic plan is an internal process—this is where we need to be in 5 years and this is how we say we need to get there,” she said, adding PARD aims to get feedback to help shape tasks and strategies going forward. "We would like to know if someone has an idea."