#KCParks Director McHenry to Retire at the end of 2018KC Parks Director Mark McHenry is calling it a career after 44 years with the City of Kansas City, Missouri’s Parks and Recreation Department.Highlights of McHenry’s career include adding 34 parks, building six more community centers, doubling the size of the zoo, helping create the current World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, and revitalizing Starlight Theatre.He also modernized the department’s operations by increasing resident involvement in park planning, using Citizen Satisfaction Survey data to drive decisions, and updating technology used by employees.In his early years in the department, McHenry remembers repairing fiberglass kangaroos at Penguin Park, and cutting logs for the Shoal Creek Living History Museum. In retirement, he will devote time to cycling even more miles on KC’s boulevards and trails, traveling, enjoying more family time and continuing his service on several parks-related boards.More about Mark at kcparks.org.