Town Park in Corte Madera will get a new playground next year.

The Town Council unanimously approved a $335,000 replacement project at its meeting on Dec. 16. The vendor is GameTime, a company based in Fort Payne, Alabama.

The park’s playground, built in the early 2000s, has been boarded up since last year when a town inspection deemed it unsafe. The town conducted a survey in July to ask residents what they want to see in the new playground. It received 142 responses from Corte Madera and Larkspur residents who primarily visit the park on a weekly basis.

“The people are so eager to have the kids’ playground reopened again,” Pati Stoliar, a parks and recreation commissioner, said at the last council meeting.

The town received a grant of nearly $83,000 for the project in July. The grant program is supported by the California Parks and Recreation Society, a nonprofit organization based in Sacramento, as well as playground design companies. The town had to order the equipment by the last day of this year in order to use the grant funding.

Aside from the grant, most of the project costs will be covered by about $150,000 in sales tax revenue and $180,200 from the town’s recreation capital fund.

The grant requires various elements to be included in the playground, including balancing, climbing, swinging, sliding and spinning. Town staff drew upon public comments and worked with playground designers to integrate the elements into two conceptual design options.

Along with using comments from online and in-person surveys, the town let children weigh in on which design option they would prefer.

“They actually loved the exercise and got really into it,” Tim Barry, the parks and recreation director, said about the kids.

The final design features play elements like slides, a butterfly-shaped climbing structure and stepping stones. The project will include removing the old play structure, installing the new equipment, installing new surfacing and adding a spinning and climbing feature.

“I am absolutely thrilled to see this happen,” said Councilmember Pat Ravasio. “I think even though this is a little higher price than we thought it was going to be, it’s a really good investment in Corte Madera and I wholeheartedly support it.”

Construction is likely to begin in February and last for three weeks, according to town staff.