Oakland Township Parks and Recreation Director Mindy Milos-Dale will Retire May 31, 2024. After being honored the night before at Board of Trustees Meeting for her 25 years of distinguished service including over $10,000,000 in MNRTF grant awards that added over 1500 acres to our parks system, Ms. Milos-Dale read tearfully her letter of resignation at the Parks and Recreation Meeting last night. She expressed appreciation for the opportunity and gratitude for how well she was treated by Parks Commissioners.

It is of utmost importance to find someone to competently fill her role. None of us truly know how much of what we have in our Parks we would not have without Ms. Milos-Dale’s leadership and management skills. The Commissioners began planning her replacement with legal advice on the process in closed session last night. I have a feeling that any community she retires to will suddenly start receiving MNTRF parks grants. I wish her and her husband a happy retirement.