CENTRAL — The site designs for a planned outdoor recreation complex in Central are now available for view at Central Town Hall.

The design by Site Design, Inc. came together after much input from the public and town officials, said Central Recreation Director Tom Cloer.

The complex will be built on 29 acres of land purchased by the Town of Central across the street from the indoor recreation complex, Cloer said.

“The land is comprised of fields, a wooded area, river bottom,” he said. “It has a little bit of everything.”

The Town of Central Recreation Complex will contain four baseball fields and a full sized football/soccer field, Cloer said.

“It’ll be a field we can run different practices on,” he said.

The site will also include a playground, a walking trail, picnic shelters, a dog park and a Frisbee golf course that will wind its way around the complex.

A $21,000 state Parks and Recreation grant funded the design phase of the project, but Cloer said additional funding for the project’s next steps may be hard to come by.

“We just got done with the first phase,” he said. “Now we move into securing funds to provide the engineering drawings.”

Cloer said the town hopes securing those funds won’t take more than a year.

“It’s going to be tough securing grant funds,” Cloer said.

Any more grants available through the state Parks and Recreation Department have been cut or slashed due to budget woes, he said.

“We’re going to look at other avenues,” Cloer said. “We may be looking to our county Recreation Commission to assist us with funds. A project this size is going to take quite a bit of money.”

Officials recently received word that stimulus monies cannot be used for recreation projects, he said.

Just securing the land was one of the town’s main goals, ensuring that land would be available when needed, Cloer said.

“Securing land for future recreation, that was important,” he said. “We know we’re going to be growing over the years.”

Completing the engineering drawings will take more than $100,000, Cloer said.

“It’s not going to be an overnight process,” he said. “It’s going to take years to completely develop the site. The economy’s going to drive a lot of this.”