MARIETTA — Heading into the busy summer season, national parks in Cobb are doing what they can to lessen the impact of sequestration on visitors, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a few inconveniences.
Nancy Walther, superintendent at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, said her staff is working with $83,000 in federal budget cuts. She said they are looking to resolve that by hiring two fewer summer employees, cutting travel and grounds maintenance like mowing, not renewing the cellphone tour contract for visitors and reducing some of their summer programs, including the cannon artillery and military living history demonstrations.
“(The sequestration) is definitely affecting us,” Walther said. “We normally hire a few seasonal workers for the summer, and we’re going to be down two. We usually are up to six.” But there will be no cuts in the park’s hours of operation.
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