During a meeting filled with confusion, the agency in charge of East Baton Rouge parks rejected giving a civic group foundation control over creating a master plan for the university lakes area and decided to pay at least $300,000 to make the plan itself.

The goal of the plan is to make the area a destination for recreation, but many attendees feared a plan created by an outside group would try to remove the golf course or change the historic nature of City-Brooks Park.

Multiple drafts of a proposed cooperative endeavor agreement had been sent to BREC commissioners, resulting in members referencing different documents and general confusion over which agreement was the subject of the vote.

Eventually—after more than an hour of discussion—Commissioner Carl Stages motioned for BREC to sole

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